Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1862-05-01
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY FOR MAY

The May number of the atlantic Monthly has
the following articles "NIan under Sealed Or
ders," by Rev. j. Treadwell Walden, Norwich,
Conn. "My Garden" by Miss NJ. A. Dodge /;
Lyrics of the Street,. The kilograms" by
Julia Ward Howe "The South Breaker" by
MIS-. Harriet f.. Prescott "Methods of Study
in Natural History" by Professor Louis Agas-
siz; "Spirits," by Mrs. L. NJ. Child 1.-THE
Titmouse," by Ralph Waldo Emerson; salt
petre as Source of Power" by Professor A.
A. Hayes weather in War;" by C. c. Haze
well Lines written under Portrait Of Theo-
dore Winthrop; !" "IIndlance,' by David A.
WATSON The Craftsmanship of Richeieu"
by Professor A. ID. White, of the University of
Michigan "Under the Snow" by the late Gen.
F. W. Lander Slavery" "The Volunteer"
by Elbridge ]. Cutler; "Speech of Hon. Pre-
served Doe in Secret Caucus" by James Rus
sell Lowell; Reviews and Literary Notices.
The number is an excellent one, varied in the
subjects treated, as magazine should be, and
with several articles of uncommon merit. Mr..
Emerson has an exquisite little poem, "The Tt
mouse" which many readers will call the mate
of the delicious Humble Bee" A passenger
curdled with cold is saluted with the saucy
"Chica-dee dee" of the ttmouse, bravely piped
forth into the better air of winter:
"Gay and polite cheerful cry.
'Coick-thich-a-dee-deer saucv note
Out of sound heart aud merry throat,
As if it said, Good day, good Sir!
Fine afternoon, old passenger!
Happy to meet you in these places,
WI Where January brings few mems faces
This poet, though he live apart,
Moved by hOspable heart,
Sped, when passed his sylvan fort
To do the honOrs of court
As fits feathered lord of land,
Flew near, with soft wing grazed my hand
Hoped ON the bough, then, darling low,
Prints his small impress on the snow,
Shows feats of his gymnastc play,
Head downward, olinging TO the spray.
Here was this atom In full breath
Hurting defiance mt vast death,
This scrap Of valor just for play
Fronts the north-wnd in waiscoat gray,
As if to shame my weak behavior,
greeted loud my little savior;
thou pet! what dost here? and what FOR
In these woods thy small Labrador,
At this pinch, wee San Salvador!
What fire burns in that little chest,
So frolic stout and self-possest?
Ddst steal the glow that lights the West?
HencefOrth wear no stripe but thine:
Ashes and black all hues outshne.
Why are not diamonds black and gray,
To ape thy daredevil array?
And affirm the spacious North
Exists to draw thy virtues forth.
think no virtue goes with size;
Inc reason of all cowardce
- mat men are overgrown,
anu, 10 be valiant must come down
10 the titmouse dimension
Inc pressure of water which deep-sea fish
bear is finely illustrated in Professor Aeassiz's
paper on Natural History:
"Of all air-breathing animals, none exhibits
more surprising power of adapting itself 10
great and rapid change of external influences
than the condor 1t may be seen feeding on
the sea-shore under q burning tropical sun, and
then. rising from its repast, it floats up among
the highest SUBMITS of the Andes and is lost
to sight beyond them, miles above the line of
perpetual snow, where the temperature must be
lower than that of the Arctcs. But even the
condor, sweeping at one flight from tropic heat
TO arctic cold although ii passes through great
er changes of temperature, does not undergo