Memoriae Positum R.G.S _J.R. Lowell_ My Brother and I _J.T. Trowbridge_ Neva, The _Bayard Taylor_ On Picket Duty _Mrs. W.T. Johnson_ Our Classmate _O.W. Holmes_ Planting of the Apple-Tree, The _W.C. Bryant_ Presence _Alice, Gary_ Prospice _Robert Browning_ Reaper's Dream, The _T.B. Read_ Reenlisted _Lucy Larcom_ Shakspeare _O.W. Holmes_ Snow _Elizabeth A.C. Akers_ Snow-Man, The _C.J. Sprague_ Song _Alice Cary_ To a Young Girl Dying _T.W. Parsons_ Under the Cliff _Robert Browning_ Wreck of Rivermouth, The _John G. Whittier_ REVIEWS AND LITERACY NOTICES. Adams's Church Pastorals Agassiz's Methods of Study in Natural History Alger's Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Boynton's History of West Point Browning's Sordello, Strafford, Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day Craik's History of English Literature Draper's History of the Intellectual Development of Europe Dream Children Foederalist, The, Dawson's Edition Gillett's Life and Times of Huss Hallam's Remains Hannah Thurston Merivale's History of the Romans under the Empire Mill's Principles of Political Economy My Days and Nights on the Battle-field My Farm of Edgewood Peculiar Possibilities of Creation Ray's Mental Hygiene Renan, De l'Origine du Langage Smiles's Industrial Biography Spencer's Illustrations of Progress Thackeray's Roundabout Papers Ticknor's Life of Prescott Tuckerman's Poems Tyndall on Heat Weiss's Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker RECENT AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS. VOL. XIII.--JANUARY, 1864--NO. LXXV. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by TICKNOR AND FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. * * * * * GOVERNOR JOHN WINTHROP IN OLD ENGLAND. Our magazine was introduced to the world bearing on the cover of its first number a vignette of the portraiture of the ever honored and revered John Winthrop, first Governor of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay. The effigies expressed a countenance, features, and a tone of character in beautiful harmony with all that we know of the man, all that he was and did. Gravity and loftiness of soul, tempered by a mild and tender delicacy, depth of experience, resolution of purpose, native dignity, acquired wisdom, and an harmonious equipoise of the robust virtues and the winning graces have set their unmistakable tokens on those lineaments. That vignette, after renewing from month to month before our readers, for nearly four years, as gracious and fragrant a memory as can engage the love of a New-England heart, gave place, in the month of June, 1861, to the only emblem, no longer personal, which might claim to supplant it. The national flag, during a struggle which has seen its dignity insulted only to rouse and nerve the spirit which shall vindicate its glory, has displaced that bearded and ruffed portraiture.