, 1863-09-29

l 0VV1A NoAANHa9s
TIE ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
The atlantic Honti;y Tor October ID out snd
Is sn unusually attractive number We have
no space to-day to render anything like jas-
tice to ite contents, and subjoin, therefore,
the following list Of contributions to It's
pseee, xuh the names Of their authors at
tached:
Charles Lamb's Uncollecssd Writings. (se1ond
fsgsr3 Rt 3.,,r.
The Deacon's Holocaust. :...-.
The United States Ar1aory. ByGeorgs 3. Fzcs.
Tie Pewee. pyJ. 7. Tsowbti 'se:
Mrs. Lewis. Part II. By Mrs. Thomas Hop
ktrson.
Fesisoeftas Soedasst e. &, i9ea rs Whsasy.
The Legend Of Monts del Diablo. By Frank B.
% Liz Without Principle. D; ueary n. 7horeau
! 4 Letter to Thomas Carlyle. BY D. A. Wasson
Ioluntaries: b Ralph W4!do Emsrsoa
| Our Dumcetic Relations. BY Charles Sumner. :
Reviews and Literary Notices.
| For sale at John E. Walsh's.
| TIE AMBER GODS and Other Stories. ByHAR-
EEr +. PKEscoTT. Boston: Ticknor . Fields.
Chicago: S. C. Griggs q Co. and johnR Walsh.
Miss Prescott is the most gifted and pow.
| e,ful writer either or this or the other sidc
| Of the wafer. She has wonderful mastery
Of the English language, and choice dis
| elimination in the selection Of words where
with to convey her Ideas. She has great de.
scriptive faculty, nlso; great creative power,
power Of combination, and Of presenting
scenery In the genuine aspects Of nature, in
| a11 tie breadths and depths Of light aud shad.
| 81 rr14 ~
| narrative, when che lays herself out for this
| kind Of pertoEmance-as In the South Break.
| er, for e1ample-is Of the highest; and not un-
frequently 1t reminds Us, by its directness and
simplicity, Of tho marvellous fctions Of De
Foe. Her style is very musical, and, insome
OF her pieces, very varied -abounding In cpl
grams, In intense, passionate sentences, and
otttn In II fine. sweet humor. She is at times
teree and brueque; her characters ascend to
the highest, and descend almost to the lowest
manifestations of human life. Homely New
England life ia u powerful theme il her hands.
and she Is master Of the whole gamut of TIM
passions. Her sentences are often laden with
'ich thoughts and sentiments, and set in fbe
choicest jewels Of 1auguage. Imagination is
her prominent faculty. She is ID. of picture,
nlso, and poetry. A little Frenchy sometimes.
perlaps-as In that remarkable Rembrandt
piece, "1n Ce11ar"-but, on the whole. =
genuine, idiomatic writer Of English. She,
like Airs. Browning, is fond Of voluptuous
imagery, and reyels in 1t here and there, as If
she were come 1anton and beautiful Hebe.
The finest piece Of CONSCIOUSNESS Of this kind,
in the language, is her Amber Gods. It Is
the Apotheosis Of the Senses, refined by tbs
most chaste and delicate fancy. Her great
tault is that she will make pu,.s, which are
tho lowest kind Of wit, and she Is not good
at this sport-uay, she often confounds the
mere play upon words with the real pun 1t.
self, and in such cases 1amertably falls, rs all
such must.
Ticknor & Fields have collected in the Fol-
unlc before US, the Amber Gods, In Cellar,
Knitting Bale Socks, Circumstance, Desert
Lands, midsummer aud Mny, The South
Breaker; and we will venture 10 say that they
are the best things Of their class to be found
in modern literature,
PHILIP VAN ARTEyELDE. By HENRY Tar.
loR. Boston: Ticknor i Fields cbieaoo: 4
C. Gzfggs & Co. and John r. Walsh.
This Is reprint, in blue and gold, Of AfE,
Taylor remarkable poem called " Philip Van
A1teveldc." It Is too late to make q critical
notice of this fine drama; but In commend.
ing 1t, We may any that no library Of modern
English poetry would be complete without 1t.
ARMY .PAY DIGEST, AND REG1NESraL
GAi TABLE. BJ Major EZRA WEBB. New
& Co. ~'''ss'