Andrews's South since the War 778 A Noble Life 650 Bigelow's Address on the Limits of Education 251 Bowles's Across the Continent 524 Brownson's American Republic 523 Clark's Mind in Nature 649 Croquet, Manuals of 772 Doolittle's Social Life of the Chinese 779 Foote's War of the Rebellion 653 Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates 779 Herman; or, Young Knighthood 246 Hittell's Resources of California 522 Holcombe's Literature in Letters 650 Jean Ingelow's Songs of Seven 122 Lecky's Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe 248 Life and Letters of Frederick W. Robertson 119 Life of Michael Angelo 124 Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds 525 McGilchrist's Richard Cobden 253 Meta Lander's Esperance 525 Perry's Human Hair 255 Piatt's Poems 653 Savage's History of the Boston Watch and Police 122 Sarmiento's Vida de Abran. Lincoln 252 Smiles's Lives of Boulton and Watt 384 Taylor's Story of Kennett 775 Towle's History of Henry the Fifth 651 Tuckerman's Criterion 651 White's Poetry of the Civil War 724 Whittier's Snow-Bound 383 Winifred Bertram 384 Works of Edmund Burke, The 122 RECENT AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS 125, 256, 655 THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. _A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics._ VOL. XVII.--JANUARY, 1866.--NO. XCIX. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by TICKNOR AND FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. PASSAGES FROM HAWTHORNE'S NOTE-BOOKS. I.