ion 377
Chamberlain's Autobiography of a New England Farm-House 255
Child's Looking toward Sunset 255
Cobbe's Broken Lights 124
De Vries, Collection. German Series 379
Dewey's Lowell Lectures 286
Frothingham's Philosophy 251
Hodde's Cradle of Rebellions 380
Hosmer's Morrisons 378
Hunt's Seer 376
Ingelow's Studies for Stories 378
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's Letters 126
Murdoch's Patriotism in Poetry and Prose 250
Reynard the Fox 380
Russell's Review of Todleben's History 638
Sabine's Loyalists of the American Revolution 123
Seaside and Fireside Fairies 640
Thackeray's Vanity Fair 639
Thoreau's Cape Cod 381
Tuckerman's America and her Commentators 122

RECENT AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS 128, 382, 640, 764

THE

ATLANTIC MONTHLY.

_A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics._

VOL. XV.--JANUARY, 1865.--NO. LXXXVII.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by TICKNOR AND
FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

ANOTHER SCENE FROM THE DOLLIVER ROMANCE.[A]

We may now suppose Grandsir Dolliver to have finished his breakfast,
with a better appetite and sharper perception of the qualities of his
food than he has generally felt of late years, whether it were due to
old Martha's cookery or to the cordial of the night before. Little
Pansie had also made an end of her bread and milk with entire
satisfaction, and afterwards nibbled a crust, greatly enjoying its
resistance to her little white teeth.

How this child came by the odd name of Pansie, and whether it was really
her baptismal name, I have not ascertained. More probably it was one of
those pet appellations that grow out of a child's c