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 XX. [Illustration] BOSTON: TICKNOR AND FIELDS, 124 TREMONT STREET. 1867. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by TICKNOR AND FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, & CO., CAMBRIDGE. * * * * * Transcriber's note: Minor typos have been corrected. Footnotes have been moved to the end of the article. * * * * * CONTENTS. Page Artist's Dream, An _T. W. Higginson_ 100 Autobiography of a Quack, The. I., II. 466, 586 Bornoo, A Native of 485 Bowery at Night, The _Charles Dawson Shanly_ 602 By-Ways of Europe. From Perpignan to Montserrat. _Bayard Taylor_ 495 " " A Visit to the Balearic Islands. I. _Bayard Taylor_ 680 Busy Brains _Austin Abbott_ 570 Canadian Woods and Waters _Charles Dawson Shanly_ 311 Cincinnati _James Parton_ 229 Conspiracy at Washington, The 633 Cretan Days _Wm. J. Stillman_ 533 Dinner Speaking _Edward Everett Hale_ 507 Doctor Molke _Dr. I. I. Hayes_ 43 Edisto, Up the _T. W. Higginson_ 157 Foster, Stephen C., and Negro Minstrelsy _Robert P. Nevin_ 608 Fugitives from Labor _F. Sheldon_ 370 Grandmother's Story: The Great Snow 716 Gray Goth, In the _Miss E. Stuart Phelps_ 559 Great Public Character, A _James Russell Lowell_ 618 Growth, Limitations, and Toleration of Shakespeare's Genius _E. P. Whipple_ 178 Guardian Angel, The. VII., VIII., IX., X., XI., XII. _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 1, 129, 257, 385, 513, 641 Hospital Memories. I., II. _Miss Eudora Clark_ 144, 324 International Copyright _James Parton_ 430 Jesuits in North America, The _George E. Ellis_ 362 Jonson, Ben _E. P. Whipple_ 403 Longfellow's Translation of Dante's Divina Commedia 188 Liliput Province, A _W. Winwood Reade_ 247 Literature as an Art _T. W. Higginson_ 745 Little Land of Appenzell, The _Bayard Taylor_ 213 Minor Elizabethan Dramatists _E. P. Whipple_ 692 Minor Italian Travels _W. D. Howells_ 337 Mysterious Personage, A _John Neal_ 658