THE

ATLANTIC MONTHLY

A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics.

VOL. XVII.—MARCH, 1866.—NO. CI.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by Ticknor and Fields, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.


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