# The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862

Author: Various

Genre: Continental Monthly

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14583

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## Summary

For more than a month I had been ransacking my memory in search of some story or narrative to offer our readers, but with rather poor success. I thought of all the good things I had ever heard, and tumbled and tossed my books in vain--nothing could I find that was suitable for either children or parents. So I was, very reluctantly, about to abandon the enterprise, when it chanced that, being unable to compose myself to sleep, a few nights since, I took up, according to my custom on such occasions, an old copy of Montaigne, the usual companion of my vigils, the fellow-occupant of my pillow, and the only moralist whose musings one can read with pleasure on the wrong side of forty.

## Chapters

- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-continental-monthly-vol-1-no-3-march-1862-14583/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-continental-monthly-vol-1-no-3-march-1862-14583/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-continental-monthly-vol-1-no-3-march-1862-14583/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-continental-monthly-vol-1-no-3-march-1862-14583/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-continental-monthly-vol-1-no-3-march-1862-14583/chapters/3/index.md)