on 383

Higginson's Epictetus 761

Holley's Treatise on Ordnance and Armor 126

Johnson, Andrew, Speeches of 763

Kingsley's Hillyars and Burtons 121

Le Fanu's Uncle Silas 121

Mann, Horace, Life of 247

Mill's Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy 762

Mueller's Lectures on the Science of Language 128

Muloch's Christian's Mistake 121

Nota's La Fiera 125

Parkman's France and England in North America 505

Spencer's Social Statics 381

Stevens's History of the Methodist Episcopal Church
in the United States 123

Stone's Life and Times of Sir William Johnson 121

Taylor's Holy Living and Holy Dying 122

Thoreau's Letters 504

White's Memoirs of Shakespeare 637

RECENT AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS 256, 384, 640

THE

ATLANTIC MONTHLY.

_A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics._

VOL. XVI.--JULY, 1865.--NO. XCIII.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by TICKNOR AND
FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

YOUNG MEN IN HISTORY.

History is an imperfect record of nations and races, diverse in their
position and capacities, but identical in nature and one in destiny.
Viewed comprehensively, its individuals and events comprise the
incidents of an uncompleted biography of man, a biography long, obscure,
full of puzzling facts for thought to interpret, and more puzzling
breaks for thought to bridge, but, on the whole, exhibiting man as
moving and man as moving forward. If we scrutinize the character of this
progress, we shall find that the forces which propel society in the
direction of improvement, and the ideas we form of the nature of that
improvement, are the forces and the ideas of youth. The world, indeed,
moves under the impulses of youth to realize the ideals of youth. It has
youth for its beginning and youth for its end; for youth is alive, and
progress is