JAN 
THE 
ATLANTIC MONTHLY 
DEVOTED TO 
Literature, Science, Art, and Politics 
VOLUME XLIX.-NUMBER 293 
MARCH, 1882 
CONTENTS 
PAGB 
The Story of the Hoosac Tunnel. N. H . 
Egleston . 289 
Loki. Elizabeth Robins .304 
The House of a Merchant Prince. III.-V. 
William H. Bishop .314 
Love and Death. Charlotte Fiske Bates . . 329 
Hurricanes. N. S. Shaler .330 
Hymns and Hymn-Tinkers. A. P. Hitchcock 336 
An Echo of Passion. VI.-VIII. George 
Parsons Lathrop .346 
Syrinx. Edith M. Thomas .361 
Life and the Dream of Life. John Trow¬ 
bridge .362 
A Visit to Jerusalem. Edward E. Hale . 368 
At Last, yohn Greenleaf Whittier .... 374 
Among the Sky Lines. H H . .37.5 
Our Winter Birds. Mary Treat . . . .381 
Before the Curfew. 1829-1882. Oliver 
Wendell Holmes . , . 386 
A Difficulty in Hamlet. J . P . Quincy . 388 
The Political Situation.393 
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On a Great Man whose Mind is Cloud¬ 
ing. Edmund C. Stedman .399 
Captain Farquhar. H A. Huntington . . 399 
Campaigns of the Civil War. S. M. Quincy 407 
Vol. I. The Outbreak of Rebellion. By John G. 
Nicolay. Vol. II. From Fort Henry to Corinth. By 
M. F. Force. Vol. III. The Peninsula. McClel¬ 
lan’s Campaign of 1862. By Alexander S. Webb. 
COBDEN.415 
The Light Literature of Travel . . . 419 
House’s Japanese Episodes. — Hassard’s A Pick¬ 
wickian Pilgrimage.—Miss Sarah Ome Jewett’s Coun¬ 
try By-Ways. 
Mr. Warner’s Biographical Studies . . 422 
Warner’s Captain John Smith {1579-1631), sometime 
Governor of Virginia and Admiral of New England. 
— Warner’s Washington Irving. 
The Contributors’ Club.424 
Prefaces. — A Color-Cure. — Provincial Dullness. 
— A Chapter on Deformity. — A Contributor’s View of 
Wordsworth’s Ode on the Intimations of Immortality. 
Books of the Month.430 
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