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uyckinck's Life of George Herbert Emerson, Rowse's Portrait of Ernest Carroll Furness's Thoughts on the Life and Character of Jesus Hamilton's Lecture on Metaphysics Hymns of the Ages Index to Catalogue of Boston City Library Lytton, R.B., (Owen Meredith,) Poems by Mathematical Monthly, The Morgan's, Lady, Autobiography Mothers and Infants, Nurses and Nursing Mustee, The Prescott's Philip II Sawyer's New Testament Seddon, Thomas, Memoir and Letters of Sixty Years' Gleanings from Life's Harvest Stratford Gallery, The Symbols of the Capital Truebner's Bibliographical Guide to American Literature Vernon Grove Whittier, Barry's Portrait of Wilson's Conquest of Mexico LIST OF BOOKS THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS. VOL. III.--JANUARY, 1859.--NO. XV. OLYMPUS AND ASGARD. How remote from the nineteenth century of the Christian era lies the old Homeric world! By the magic of the Ionian minstrel's verse that world is still visible to the inner eye. Through the clouds and murk of twenty centuries and more, it is still possible to catch clear glimpses of it, as it lies there in the golden sunshine of the ancient days. A thousand objects nearer in the waste of past time are far more muffled, opaque, and impervious to vision. As you enter it through the gates of the "Ilias" and "Odusseia," you bid a glad adieu to the progress of the age, to railroads and telegraph-wires, to cotton-spinning, (there might have been some of that done, however, in some Nilotic Manchester or Lowell,) to the diffusion of knowledge and the rights of man and societies for the improvement of our race, to humanitarianism and philanthropy, to science and mechanics, to the printing-press and gunpowder, to industrialism, clipper-ships, power-looms, metaphysics, geology, observatories, light-houses, and a myriad other things too numerous for specification,--and you pass into a sunny region of glorious sensualism, where there are no obstinate questionings of outward things, where there are no blank misgivings of a creature moving about in worlds not realized, no morbid self-accusings of a morbid methodistic conscience. All there in that old world, lit "by the strong vertical light" of Homer's genius, is healthful, sharply-defined, tangible, definite, and sensualistic. Even the divine powers, the gods themselves, are almost visible to the eyes of their worshippers, as they reve
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