# The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 20

July–December 1867
THE
ATLANTIC MONTHLY,
A MAGAZINE OF
Literature, Science, Art, and Politics.
VOLUME XX.
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 for the District of Massachusetts.
University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co., Cambridge.
* Number 117 (July 1867; pages 1–128)
* Number 118 (August 1867; pages 129–256)
* Number 119 (September 1867; pages 257–384)
* Number 120 (October 1867; pages 385–512)
* Number 121 (November 1867; pages 513–640)
* Number 122 (December 1867; pages 641–764)
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., IIII. | 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 |
| A Young Desperado | 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 | Alica 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 | Browne's Land of Thor | 256 |
| Charlevoix's History of New France | Charlevoix's History of New France | 125 |
| Codman's Ten Months in Brazil | Codman's Ten Months in Brazil | 383 |
| Cozzens's Sayings of Doctor Bushwhacker and other Learned Men | Cozzens's Sayings of Doctor Bushwhacker and other Learned Men | 512 |
| Critical and Social Essays, from the New York "Nation" | Critical and Social Essays, from the New York "Nation" | 384 |
| Dall's (Mrs.) The College, the Market, and the Court | Dall's (Mrs.) The College, the Market, and the Court | 235 |
| Du Chaillu's Journey to Ashango-Land | Du Chaillu's Journey to Ashango-Land | 122 |
| Emerson's May-Day and Other Pieces | Emerson's May-Day and Other Pieces | 376 |
| Half-Tints | Half-Tints | 256 |
| Holland's Kathrina | Holland's Kathrina | 762 |
| Hoppin's Old England | Hoppin's Old England | 127 |
| Hymns by Harriet McEwen Kimball | Hymns by Harriet McEwen Kimball | 128 |
| Jean Ingelow's Story of Doom, and other Poems | Jean Ingelow's Story of Doom, and other Poems | 383 |
| Lea's Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church | Lea's Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church | 378 |
| Literary Life of James K. Paulding, The | Literary Life of James K. Paulding, The | 124 |
| Memoirs and Correspondence of Madame Récamier | Memoirs and Correspondence of Madame Récamier | 127 |
| Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty | Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty | 120 |
| Morris's Life and Death of Jason | Morris's Life and Death of Jason | 640 |
| Morse on the Poem "Rock me to Sleep, Mother" | Morse on the Poem "Rock me to Sleep, Mother" | 252 |
| Norton's Translation of The New Life of Dante | Norton's Translation of The New Life of Dante | 638 |
| Parsons's Deus Homo | Parsons's Deus Homo | 512 |
| Parsons's Translation of the Inferno | Parsons's Translation of the Inferno | 759 |
| Paulding's The Bulls and the Jonathans | Paulding's The Bulls and the Jonathans | 639 |
| Purnell's Literature and its Professors | Purnell's Literature and its Professors | 254 |
| Richmond during the War | Richmond during the War | 762 |
| Ritter's Comparative Geography of Palestine | Ritter's Comparative Geography of Palestine | 125 |
| Samuels's Ornithology and Oölogy of New England | Samuels's Ornithology and Oölogy of New England | 761 |
| Thackeray's Early and Late Papers | Thackeray's Early and Late Papers | 252 |
| Tomes's Champagne Country | Tomes's Champagne Country | 511 |
| Webb's Liffith Lank, or Lunacy, and St. Twel'mo | Webb's Liffith Lank, or Lunacy, and St. Twel'mo | 123 |