# The Atlantic Monthly Volume 07 No 39 January 1861 A Magazine Of

Author: Unknown

Genre: Public Domain

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: Local public-domain TXT source

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## Summary

Washington is the paradise of paradoxes,--a city of magnificent distances, but of still more magnificent discrepancies. Anything may be affirmed of it, everything denied. What it seems to be it is not; and although it is getting to be what it never was, it must always remain what it now is. It might be called a city, if it were not alternately populous and uninhabited; and it would be a wide-spread village, if it were not a collection of hospitals for decayed or callow politicians. It is the hybernating-place of fashion, of intelligence, of vice,--a resort without the attractions of waters either mineral or salt, where there is no bathing and no springs, but drinking in abundance and gamb...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-07-no-39-january-1861-a-magazine-of-cbfaa05f/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-07-no-39-january-1861-a-magazine-of-cbfaa05f/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-07-no-39-january-1861-a-magazine-of-cbfaa05f/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-07-no-39-january-1861-a-magazine-of-cbfaa05f/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-07-no-39-january-1861-a-magazine-of-cbfaa05f/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-07-no-39-january-1861-a-magazine-of-cbfaa05f/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-07-no-39-january-1861-a-magazine-of-cbfaa05f/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-07-no-39-january-1861-a-magazine-of-cbfaa05f/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-07-no-39-january-1861-a-magazine-of-cbfaa05f/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-07-no-39-january-1861-a-magazine-of-cbfaa05f/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-07-no-39-january-1861-a-magazine-of-cbfaa05f/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-07-no-39-january-1861-a-magazine-of-cbfaa05f/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-07-no-39-january-1861-a-magazine-of-cbfaa05f/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-07-no-39-january-1861-a-magazine-of-cbfaa05f/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-07-no-39-january-1861-a-magazine-of-cbfaa05f/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-07-no-39-january-1861-a-magazine-of-cbfaa05f/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-07-no-39-january-1861-a-magazine-of-cbfaa05f/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-07-no-39-january-1861-a-magazine-of-cbfaa05f/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-07-no-39-january-1861-a-magazine-of-cbfaa05f/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-07-no-39-january-1861-a-magazine-of-cbfaa05f/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-07-no-39-january-1861-a-magazine-of-cbfaa05f/chapters/21/index.md)