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A 
MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS, 
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IS UNIVERSALLY RECOGNIZED AS THE 
BEST AMERICAN MAGAZINE. 
THE FOURTEENTH VOLUME 
Of the Atlantic commences with the number for July, 1864. Its com¬ 
mencement affords the. Publishers an occasion to say that the Atlantic 
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magazine of its class. * 
The prosperity of the Atlantic enables its conductors to employ the most 
eminent talent of the country in its columns. All the best known writers in 
American literature, contributing constantly to its pages, give it the sole right 
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names among its leading contributors: — 
James Russell Lowell, 
Henry W. Longfellow, 
Louis Agassiz, 
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 
Charles Sumner, 
Robert Dale Owen, 
George W. Curtis, 
C. C. Hazewell, 
T. W. Higginson, 
Author of “ Margret Howth,” 
Thomas W. Parsons, 
Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, 
T. Buchanan Read, 
Oliver Wendell Holmes, 
John G. Whittier, 
Gail Hamilton, 
E. P. Whipple, 
Bayard Taylor, 
Charles E. Norton, 
Francis Parkman, 
John G. Palfrey, 
George S. Hillard, 
Henry Giles, 
Walter Mitchell, 
Henry T. Tuckerman, 
John Weiss, 
Francis Wayland, Jr., 
William Cullen Bryant, 
Mrs. H. B. Stowe, 
Harriet Martineau, 
“Ik Marvel,” . 
David A. Wasson, 
“The Country Parson,” 
Rose Terry, 
Harriet E. Prescott, 
Robert T. S Lowell, 
J. T. Trowbridge, 
Josiah P. Quincy, 
Prof. A. D. White, 
Edward E. Hale, 
F. Sheldon. 
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