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Title: The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864

Author: Various

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THE

ATLANTIC MONTHLY.

A MAGAZINE OF

LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS.

VOLUME XIII.

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BOSTON:

TICKNOR AND FIELDS,

135, WASHINGTON STREET.

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LONDON: TRUeBNER AND COMPANY.

M DCCC LXIV.

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.

PRINTED BY SAM'L CHISM, Franklin Printing House, 112 Congress St.,
Boston

RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: STEREOTYPED BY H.O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY

CONTENTS.

Ambassadors in Bonds _Caroline Chesebro_
Annesley Hall and Newstead Abbey _Mrs. R.C. Waterston_

Beginning of the End, The _C.C. Hazewell_
Bryant _G.S. Hillard_

California as a Vineland
Convulsionists of St. Medard, The _Robert Dale Owen_
Cruise on Lake Ladoga, A _Bayard Taylor_

Fast-Day at Foxden, A
Fighting Facts for Fogies _C.C. Hazewell_
First Visit to Washington, The _J.T. Trowbridge_
Fouquet the Magnificent _F. Sheldon_

Genius _J. Brownlee Brown_
Glacial Period _Prof. Louis Agassiz_
Glaciers, External Appearance of _Prof. Louis Agassiz_
Glen Roy, in Scotland, The Parallel Roads of _Prof. Louis Agassiz_
Gold-Fields of Nova Scotia, The _Arthur Gilman_
Guides, A Talk about _Maria S. Cummins_

Half-Life, A, and Half a Life _Miss E.H. Appleton_
House and Home Papers _Harriet Beecher Stowe_

Irving, Washington _Donald G. Mitchell_

Life on the Sea Islands _Miss Forten_

Minister Plenipotentiary, The _O.W. Holmes_
Mormons, Among the _Fitz-Hugh Ludlow_
My Book _Gail Hamilton_

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