The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 - A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics

THE SURGEON'S ASSISTANT. ON TRANSLATING THE DIVINA COMMEDIA. WOMAN'S WORK IN THE MIDDLE AGES. PASSAGES FROM HAWTHORNE'S NOTE-BOOKS. UNIVERSITY REFORM. THE VOICE. LIFE ASSURANCE. A DISTINGUISHED CHARACTER. THE BOBOLINKS. GRIFFITH GAUNT; OR, JEALOUSY. THE CHIMNEY-CORNER FOR 1866. AN ITALIAN RAIN-STORM. INCIDENTS OF THE PORTLAND FIRE. MY LITTLE BOY. LAKE CHAMPLAIN. YESTERDAY. THE JOHNSON PARTY. REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES. RECENT AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS. The sickness of the nation not being unto death, we now begin to number its advantages. They will not all be numbered by this generation; and as for story-tellers, essayists, letter-writers, historians, and philosophers, if their "genius" flags in half a century with such material as hearts, homes, and battle-fields beyond counting afford them, they deserve to be drummed out of their respective regiments, and banished into the dominion of silence and darkness, forever to sit on the borders of unfathomable ink-pools, minus pen and paper, with fool's-caps on their heads. I know of a place which you may call Dalton, if it must have a name. At the beginning of our war,for which some true spirits thank Almighty God,a family as wretched as Satan wandering up and down the earth could wish to find lived there, close beside the borders of a lake which the Indians once calledbut why should not your fancy build the lowly cottage on whatsoever green and sloping bank it will? Fair as you please the outside world may be,waters pure as those of Lake St. Sacrament, with islands on their bosom like those of Horicon, and shores beautifully wooded as those of Lake George,but what delight will you find in all the heavenly mansions, if love be not there? ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 23743
Author: Various
Release Date: Dec 5, 2007
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Language: English