The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 - A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics

THE HARMONISTS. ABRAHAM DAVENPORT. LAST DAYS OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR. TO-MORROW. DOCTOR JOHNS. PASSAGES FROM HAWTHORNE'S NOTE-BOOKS. THE FENIAN "IDEA." THE CHIMNEY-CORNER FOR 1866. EDWIN BOOTH. AMONG THE LAURELS. GRIFFITH GAUNT; OR, JEALOUSY. WHAT WILL IT COST US? MEPHISTOPHELEAN. MR. HOSEA BIGLOW'S SPEECH IN MARCH MEETING. QUESTION OF MONUMENTS. REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES. RECENT AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS. My brother Josiah I call a successful man,very successful, though only an attorney in a manufacturing town. But he fixed his goal, and reached it. He belongs to the ruling class,men with slow, measuring eyes and bull-dog jaws,men who know their own capacity to an atom's weight, and who go through life with moderate, inflexible, unrepenting steps. He looks askance at me when I cross his path; he is in the great market making his way: I learned long ago that there was no place there for me. Yet I like to look in, out of the odd little corner into which I have been shoved,to look in at the great play, never beginning and never ending, of bargain and sale, for which all the world's but a stage; to see how men like my brother have been busy, since God blessed all things he had made, in dragging them down to the trade level, and stamping price-marks on them. Josiah looks at me grimly, as I said. Jog as methodically as I will from desk to bed and back to desk again, he suspects some outlaw blood under the gray head of the fagged-out old clerk. He indulges in his pictures, his bronzes: I have my high office-stool, and bedroom in the fifth story of a cheap hotel. Yet he suspects me of having forced a way out of the actual common-sense world by sheer force of whims and vagaries, and to have pre-empted a homestead for myself in some dream-land, where neither he nor the tax-gatherer can enter. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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