Produced by Cornell University, Joshua Hutchinson, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Production Note Cornell University Library produced this volume to preserve the informational content of the deteriorated original. The best available copy of the original has been used to create this digital copy. It was scanned bitonally at 600 dots per inch resolution and compressed prior to storage using ITU Group 4 compression. Conversion of this material to digital files was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Digital file copyright by Cornell University Library 1995. This volume has been scanned as part of The Making of America Project, a cooperative endeavor undertaken to preserve and enhance access to historical material from the nineteenth century. CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY FROM Charles William Wason THE CONTINENTAL MONTHLY. DEVOTED TO Literature and National Policy. VOL. II. JULY-DECEMBER, 1862. New York: JOHN F. TROW, 50 GREENE STREET. (FOR THE PROPRIETORS). 1862. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by JOHN F. TROW, For the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. JOHN F. TROW, Printer, Stereotyper and Electrotyper, 48 & 50 Greene Street, New York. ENTERED, according to an Act of Congress, in the year 1882 by JAMES B. GILMORE, in the Clerk of the Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York. JOHN A. GRAY PRINTER The Continental Monthly: Devoted to Literature and National Policy. CONTENTS.----No. VII What shall be the end? 1 Bone Ornaments, 5 The Molly O'Molly Papers. No. V., 6 Glances from the Senate-Gallery, 10 Maccaroni and Canvas. No. V., 14 For the Hour of Triumph, 26 In Transitu, 27 Among the Pines, 28 Was He Successful? 48 Newbern as it was and is, 58 Our Brave Times, 62 The Crisis and the Parties, 65 I Wait, 69 Taking the Census, 70 The Peloponnesus in March, 74 Adonium, 82 Polytechnic Institutes, 83 Slavery and Nobility vs. Democracy, 89 Watching the Stag, 105 Literary Notices, 106 Editor's Table, 109 SLAVERY AND NOBILITY vs. DEMOCRACY. This article, written by a gentleman who, for fifteen years, was one of the most prominent citizens of Texas, will be found worthy of most attentive perusal. WATCHING THE STAG An unfinished Poem by FITZ-JAMES O'BRIEN, we give as it came wet from the pen of its lamented author. INDEX TO VOLUME II.