Produced by Cornell University, Joshua Hutchinson, Tony Browne and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS. * * * * * VOLUME XII. M DCCC LXIII. * * * * * [Transcriber's note: Converted page numbers to issue numbers.] CONTENTS. ISSUE. American, An, in the House of Lords _Francis Wayland, Jr._ 70. Brothers, The _Louisa M. Alcott_ 73. Burke, Edmund, Interesting Manuscripts of _Charles Sumner_ 71. Carlyle, Thomas, A Letter to _D.A. Wasson_ 72. Civic Banquets _Nathaniel Hawthorne_ 70. Claims, The, to Service or Labor _Robert Dale Owen_ 69. Continents, The Growth of _Prof. Louis Agassiz_ 69. Cuba, The Conquest of _C.C. Hazewell_ 72. Deacon's Holocaust, The _J.P. Quincy_ 72. Debby's Debut _Louisa M. Alcott_ 70. Delacroix, Eugene _W.J. Stillman_ 74. De Quincy, Thomas _Henry M. Alden_ 71. Doings of the Sunbeam _O.W. Holmes_ 69. English Naval Power and English Colonies _C. Reynolds_ 69. Fleur-de-Lis, The, at Port Royal _F. Parkman_ 69. Fleur-de-Lis, The, in Florida _F. Parkman_ 70. Freedmen, The, at Port Royal _Edward L. Pierce_ 71. French Struggle for Naval and Colonial Power, The _G. Reynolds_ 73. Gala-Days _Gail Hamilton_ 69. Geological Middle Age, The _Prof. Louis Agassiz_ 70. Glacier, Internal Structure and Progression of the _Prof. Louis Agassiz_ 74. Glaciers, The Formation of _Prof. Louis Agassiz_ 73. Great Air-Engine, The _Author of "Margret Howth"_ 74. Great Instrument, The _O.W. Holmes_ 73. Harvard's Heroes _Walter Mitchell_ 71. Lamb's, Charles, Uncollected Writings _J.E. Babson_ 72. Legend, The, of Monte del Diablo _F.B. Harte_ 72. Letter to a Peace Democrat _Francis Wayland, Jr_ 74. Life without Principle _H.D. Thoreau_ 72. Literary Life in Paris 74. Longfellow _George W. Curtis_ 74. Man without a Country, The _Edward E. Hale_ 74. Mather Safe, The _J.P. Quincy_ 71. Monograph from an Old Note-Book _Charles Sumner_ 73. Mr. Martin's Disappointments 71. Mrs. Lewis _Mrs. C.A. Hopkinson_ 71, 72, 73. Musician, The _Miss L. Hale_ 69.