"THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY." pieces of stage property.
An
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American need
not be a philosopher to hold these things cheap. He cannot help it. Madame Tussaud's exhibi
Lord-Mayor's gilt coach, and a corona one happens to be in season, are all tion, sights to be seen by an American traveller, but the reverence which is born with the British tion, the if
subject went
up with the smoke
of the
gun that
fired the long echoing shot at the little bridge
over the sleepy river which 'works its way along through the wide-awake town of Concord.
In November, 1857, a new magazine was estab in Boston, bearing the Professor Atlantic Monthly."
lished
name of "The James Russell
Lowell was editor-in-chief, and Messrs. Phillips and Sampson, who were the originators of the enterprise, were the publishers. Many of the old contributors to "The Dial" wrote for the new
magazine, among them Emerson. He contrib uted twenty-eight articles in all, more than half of
them
verse, to different
numbers, from the
first
to the thirty-seventh volume. Among them are several of his best known poems, such as " The
Romany
samkeit,"
"
"Days," "Brahma," "Waldein"The Titmouse," "Boston Hymn,"
Girl,"
" Terminus." Saadi," and At about the same time there grew up in Bos ton a literary association, which became at last well known as the " Saturday Club," the mem-