The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics

THE QUEEN OF CALIFORNIA. THE BROTHER OF MERCY. AMBASSADORS IN BONDS. WET-WEATHER WORK. ON THE RELATION OF ART TO NATURE. OUR CLASSMATE. WHITTIER. THE CONVULSIONISTS OF ST. MDARD. HOUSE AND HOME PAPERS. SONG. OUR SOLDIERS. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN. REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES. RECENT AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS I can see the excitement which this title arouses as it is flashed across the sierras, down the valleys, and into the various reading-rooms and parlors of the Golden City of the Golden State. As the San Francisco "Bulletin" announces some day, that in the "Atlantic Monthly," issued in Boston the day before, one of the articles is on "The Queen of California," what contest, in every favored circle of the most favored of lands, who the Queen may be! Is it the blond maiden who took a string of hearts with her in a leash, when she left us one sad morning? is it the hardy, brown adventuress, who, in her bark-roofed lodge, serves us out our boiled dog daily, as we come home from our water-gullies, and sews on for us weekly the few buttons which we still find indispensable in that toil? is it some Jessie of the lion-heart, heroine of a hundred days or of a thousand? is it that witch with gray eyes, cunningly hidden,were they puzzled last night, or were they all wisdom crowded?as she welcomed me, and as she bade me good-bye? Good Heavens! how many Queens of California are regnant this day! and of any one of them this article might be written. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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