Produced by Cornell University, Joshua Hutchinson, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net [Transcriber's note: All footnotes moved to end of document] THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS. VOLUME XIII. [Illustration] BOSTON: TICKNOR AND FIELDS, 135, WASHINGTON STREET. * * * * * 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_ New-England Revolution of the Seventeenth Century, The, _J.G. Palfrey_ Northern Invasions _E.E. Hale_ Old Bachelor, Some Account of the Early Life of an _Mrs. A.M. Diaz_ Our Progressive Independence _O.W. Holmes_ Our Soldiers _Mrs. Furness_ Peninsular Campaign, The _Lt.-Col. B.L. Alexander_ Pictor Ignotus _Gail Hamilton_ Presidential Election, The _C.C. Hazewell_ Queen of California, The _E.E. Hale_ Ray _Harriet E. Prescott_ Relation of Art to Nature, On the _J. Eliot Cabot_ Rim, The _Harriet E. Prescott_ Robson _George Augustus Sala_ Schoolmaster's Story, The _Mrs. A.M. Diaz_ Stephen Yarrow _Author of "Life in the Iron Mills"_ Thackeray, William Makepeace _Bayard Taylor_ Types _William Winter_ Victory, How to Use _E.E. Hale_ Yo-Semite, Seven Weeks in the Great _Fitz-Hugh Ludlow_ Wet-Weather Work _Donald G. Mitchell_ Whittier _D.A. Wasson_ Winthrop, Governor John, in Old England _G.E. Ellis_ POETRY. Black Preacher, The _J.R. Lowell_ Brother of Mercy, The _John G. Whittier_ Dante's "Paradiso," Three Cantos of _H.W. Longfellow_ Gold Hair _Robert Browning_ Kalif of Baldacca, The _H.W. Longfellow_ Last Charge, The _O.W. Holmes_