POETRY.

Achmed and his Mare
At Sea

Bloodroot

Chicadee

Double-Headed Snake of Newbury, The
Drifting

Hamlet at the Boston

Inscription for an Alms-Chest

Joy-Month

Last Bird, The
Left Behind

Morning Street, The

Our Skater Belle

Palm and the Pine, The
Philter, The
Prayer for Life

Sphinx, The
Spring

Two Years After

Walker of the Snow, The
Waterfall, The

REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES.

Allibone’s Dictionary of Authors
Arabian Days’ Entertainments
Avenger, The

Bacon, The Works of
Bitter-Sweet
Bryant, Durand’s Portrait of
Bunsen’s Gott in der Geschichte

Cotton’s Illustrated Cabinet Atlas
Courtship of Miles Standish

Dexter’s Street Thoughts
Duyckinck’s Life of George Herbert

Emerson, Rowse’s Portrait of
Ernest Carroll

Furness’s Thoughts on the Life and Character of Jesus

Hamilton’s Lecture on Metaphysics
Hymns of the Ages

Index to Catalogue of Boston City Library

Lytton, R.B., (Owen Meredith,) Poems by

Mathematical Monthly, The
Morgan’s, Lady, Autobiography
Mothers and Infants, Nurses and Nursing
Mustee, The

Prescott’s Philip II

Sawyer’s New Testament
Seddon, Thomas, Memoir and Letters of
Sixty Years’ Gleanings from Life’s Harvest
Stratford Gallery, The
Symbols of the Capital

Truebner’s Bibliographical Guide to American Literature

Vernon Grove

Whittier, Barry’s Portrait of
Wilson’s Conquest of Mexico

LIST OF BOOKS

THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY.

A Magazine of literature, art, and politics.

Vol.  III.—­January, 1859.—­No.  XV.

OLYMPUS AND ASGARD.

How remote from the nineteenth century of the Christian era lies the old Homeric world!  By the magic of the Ionian minstrel’s verse that world is still visible to the inner eye.  Through the clouds and murk of twenty centuries and more, it is still possible to catch clear glimpses of it, as it lies there in the golden sunshine of the ancient days.  A thousand objects nearer in the waste of past time are far more muffled, opaque, and impervious to vision.  As you enter it through the gates of the “Ilias” and “Odusseia,” you bid a glad adieu to the progress of the age, to railroads and telegraph-wires, to cotton-spinning, (there might have been some of that done, however, in some Nilotic Manchester or Lowell,) to the diffusion of knowledge and the rights of man and societies for the improvement of our race,