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BOSTON: TICKNOR AND FIELDS, 124 TREMONT STREET.

1867.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by

TICKNOR AND FIELDS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, & CO., CAMBRIDGE.

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Transcriber's note: Minor typos have been corrected. Footnotes have been moved to the end of the article.

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CONTENTS.

Page

Artist's Dream, An _T. W. Higginson_ 100

Autobiography of a Quack, The. I., II. 466, 586

Bornoo, A Native of 485

Bowery at Night, The _Charles Dawson Shanly_ 602

By-Ways of Europe. From Perpignan to Montserrat. _Bayard Taylor_ 495

" " A Visit to the Balearic Islands. I. _Bayard Taylor_ 680

Busy Brains _Austin Abbott_ 570

Canadian Woods and Waters _Charles Dawson Shanly_ 311

Cincinnati _James Parton_ 229

Conspiracy at Washington, The 633

Cretan Days _Wm. J. Stillman_ 533

Dinner Speaking _Edward Everett Hale_ 507

Doctor Molke _Dr. I. I. Hayes_ 43

Edisto, Up the _T. W. Higginson_ 157

Foster, Stephen C., and Negro Minstrelsy _Robert P. Nevin_ 608

Fugitives from Labor _F. Sheldon_ 370

Grandmother's Story: The Great Snow 716

Gray Goth, In the _Miss E. Stuart Phelps_ 559

Great Public Character, A _James Russell Lowell_ 618

Growth, Limitations, and Toleration of Shakespeare's Genius _E. P. Whipple_ 178

Guardian Angel, The. VII., VIII., IX., X., XI., XII. _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 1, 129, 257, 385, 513, 641

Hospital Memories. I., II. _Miss Eudora Clark_ 144, 324

International Copyright _James Parton_ 430

Jesuits in North America, The _George E. Ellis_ 362

Jonson, Ben _E. P. Whipple_ 403

Longfellow's Translation of Dante's Divina Commedia 188

Liliput Province, A _W. Winwood Reade_ 247

Literature as an Art _T. W. Higginson_ 745

Little Land of Appenzell, The _Bayard Taylor_ 213

Minor Elizabethan Dramatists _E. P. Whipple_ 692

Minor Italian Travels _W. D. Howells_ 337

Mysterious Personage, A _John Neal_ 658

Opinions of the late Dr. Nott, respecting Books, Studies and Orators _E. D. Sanborn_ 527

Pacific Railroads, Our _J. K. Medbery_ 704

Padua, At _W. D. Howells_ 25

Passage from Hawthorne's English Note-Books, A 15

Piano in the United States, The _James Parton_ 82

Poor Richard. II., III. _Henry James, Jr._ 32, 166

Prophetic Voices about America. A Monograph _Charles Sumner_ 275

Religious Side of the Italian Question, The _Joseph Mazzini_ 108

Rose Rollins, The. I., II. _Alice Cary_ 420, 545

Sunshine and Petrarch _T. W. Higginson_ 307

Struggle for Life, A _T. B. Aldrich_ 56

"The Lie" _C. J. Sprague_ 598

Throne of the Golden Foot, The _J. W. Palmer_ 453

T. Adolphus Trollope, Writings of _H. T. Tuckerman_ 476

Tour in the Dark, A 670

Uncharitableness 415

Visit to Sybaris, My _Edward Everett Hale_ 63

Week's Riding, A 200

What we Feel _C. J. Sprague_ 740

Wife by Wager, A _E. H. House_ 350

Workers in Silver, Among the _James Parton_ 729

Young Desperado, A _T. B. Aldrich_ 755

POETRY.

Are the Children at Home? _Mrs. M. E. M. Sangster_ 557

Autumn Song, An _Edgar Fawcett_ 679

Blue and the Gray, The _F. M. Finch_ 369

Chanson without Music _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 543

Dirge for a Sailor _George H. Boker_ 157

Ember-Picture, An _James Russell Lowell_ 99

Feast of Harvest, The _E. C. Stedman_ 616

Flight of the Goddess, The _T. B. Aldrich_ 452

Freedom in Brazil _John G. Whittier_ 62

Lost Genius, The _J. J. Piatt_ 228

Mona's Mother _Alice Cary_ 22

Mystery of Nature, The _Theodore Tilton_ 349

Nightingale in the Study, The _James Russell Lowell_ 323

Sonnet _George H. Boker_ 744

Themistocles _William Everett_ 398

The Old Story _Alice Cary_ 199

Toujours Amour _E. C. Stedman_ 728

REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES.

Browne's Land of Thor 256

Charlevoix's History of New France 125

Codman's Ten Months in Brazil 383

Cozzens's Sayings of Doctor Bushwhacker and other Learned Men 512

Critical and Social Essays, from the New York "Nation" 384

Dall's (Mrs.) The College, the Market, and the Court 255

Du Chaillu's Journey to Ashango-Land 122

Emerson's May-Day and Other Pieces 376

Half-Tints 256

Holland's Kathrina 762

Hoppin's Old England 127

Hymns by Harriet McEwen Kimball 128

Jean Ingelow's Story of Doom, and other Poems 383

Lea's Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church 378

Literary Life of James K. Paulding, The 124

Memoirs and Correspondence of Madame Récamier 127

Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty 120

Morris's Life and Death of Jason 640

Morse on the Poem "Rock me to Sleep, Mother" 252

Norton's Translation of The New Life of Dante 638

Parsons's Deus Homo 512

Parsons's Translation of the Inferno 759

Paulding's The Bulls and the Jonathans 639

Purnell's Literature and its Professors 254

Richmond during the War 762

Ritter's Comparative Geography of Palestine 125

Samuels's Ornithology and Oölogy of New England 761

Thackeray's Early and Late Papers 252

Tomes's Champagne Country 511

Webb's Liffith Lank, or Lunacy, and St. Twel'mo 123

THE

ATLANTIC MONTHLY.

_A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics._

VOL. XX.--JULY, 1867.--NO. CXVII.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by TICKNOR AND FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

THE GUARDIAN ANGEL.