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, Science, Art, and Politics_. VOLUME XVII. [Illustration] BOSTON: TICKNOR AND FIELDS, 124 TREMONT STREET. LONDON: TRUeBNER AND COMPANY. 1866. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by TICKNOR AND FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts. UNIVERSITY PRESS: ELECTROTYPED BY WELCH, BIGELOW, & CO., CAMBRIDGE. CONTENTS. Page Amazonian Picnic, An _Mrs. Agassiz_ 313 Bad Symptoms _Edward Spenser_ 768 Beauty and the Beast _Bayard Taylor_ 13 Booth, Edwin _E. C. Stedman_ 585 Chimney-Corner for 1866, The. I., II., III., IV., V., VI. _Mrs. H. B. Stowe_ 88, 214, 345, 490, 577, 737 Court-Cards _Charles J. Sprague_ 178 Communication with the Pacific _C. C. Coffin_ 333 Doctor Johns. XII., XIII., XIV., XV., XVI., XVII. _Donald G. Mitchell_ 69, 204, 323, 466, 552, 707 English Opinion on the American War _W. M. Rossetti_ 129 Fenian "Idea," The _Frances Power Cobbe_ 572 Freedman's Story, The. I., II _William Parker_ 152, 276 Griffith Gaunt: or, Jealousy. II., III., IV., V., VI., VII. _Charles Reade_ 100, 221, 365, 507, 596, 751 Gypsies, The Origin of the _G. W. Hosmer_ 167 Harmonists, The _Author of "Life in the Iron-Mills"_ 529 High Tide of December, The _Author of "Life in the Iron-Mills"_ 47 In the Hemlocks _John Burroughs_ 672 Kingdom Coming, The _Gail Hamilton_ 81 Landscape Painter, A _Henry W. James_ 182 Late Insurrection in Jamaica, The _G. Reynolds_ 480 Last Days of Walter Savage Landor. I., II., III. _Kate Field_ 385, 540, 684 Lucy's Letters _Anne M. Brewster_ 64 Madam Waldoborough's Carriage _J. T. Trowbridge_ 407 Mephistophelean _Charles J. Sprague_ 632 Monuments, Question of _W. D. Howells_ 646