Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by Cornell University Digital Collections.) THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS. VOLUME XIV. [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. RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: STEREOTYPED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY. CONTENTS. Beer-Drinking, Head-Quarters of _Andrew Ten Broeck_ 185 Biography, The New School of _Gail Hamilton_ 579 Cadmean Madness, The _W. L. Symonds_ 265 Columbia River, On the _Fitz-Hugh Ludlow_ 703 Communication _D.A. Wasson_ 424 Cullet _Jane G. Austin_ 304 Currency _George S. Lang_ 109 Democracy and the Secession War _C. C. Hazewell_ 505 Dixie, Our Last Day in _Edmund Kirke_ 715 Dolliver Romance, A Scene from the _Nathaniel Hawthorne_ 101 Electric Girl of La Perriere, The _Robert Dale Owen_ 284 England and America _Prof. Goldwin Smith_ 749 English Authors in Florence _Miss K. Field_ 660 Foreign Relations, Our Recent _G. M. Towle_ 243 Glorying in the Goad _Gail Hamilton_ 21 Gourgues, Dominic de, The Vengeance of _F. Parkman_ 530 Halcyon Days _Caroline Chesebro_ 675 Hawthorne _O. W. Holmes_ 98 Highland Light, The _H. D. Thoreau_ 649 House and Home Papers _Harriet Beecher Stowe_ 93, 230, 434, 565, 689 How Rome is Governed _Prof. G. W. Greene_ 150 Ice and Esquimaux _D. A. Wasson_ 728 Ice-Period in America _Prof. Louis Agassiz_ 86 Inanimate Things, The Total Depravity of _Mrs. E. A. Walker_ 357 Jones, Paul, and Denis Duval _F. Ingham_ 493 Lamb's, Charles, Uncollected Writings _J. E. Babson_ 478, 552 Leaves from an Officer's Journal _T. W. Higginson_ 521, 740 Lina 538 Little Country-Girl, The _Mrs. A. M. Diaz_ 212 Luigi, The True Story of _Harriet E. Prescott_ 411