ATLANTIC MONTHLY. A MAGAZINE OF Literature, Science, Art, and Politics. VOLUME XVIII. BOSTON: TICKNOR AND FIELDS, 124 Tremont Street. 1866. 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. University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co., Cambridge. Transcriber's Note: Minor typos have been corrected and footnotes moved to the end of the article. [Pg iii] CONTENTS. Page Aunt Judy J. W. Palmer 76 ATLANTIC MONTHLY. 1 The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July, 1866. Borneo and Rajah Brooke G. Reynolds 667 Bundle of Bones, A Charles J. Sprague 60 Case of George Dedlow, The 1 Childhood; a Study F. B. Perkins 385 Chimney Corner for 1866, The, VII., VIII., IX. Mrs. H. B. Stowe 85, 197, 338 Darwinian Theory, The Charles J. Sprague 415 Distinguished Character, A 315 Englishman in Normandy, An Goldwin Smith 64 Fall of Austria, The C. C. Hazewell 746 Farmer Hill's Diary Mrs. A. M. Diaz 397 Five Hundred Years Ago J. H. A. Bone 545 Friedrich Rückert Bayard Taylor 33 Great Doctor, The, I., II. Alice Cary 12, 174 Griffith Gaunt; or, Jealousy. VIII., IX., X., XI., XII. Charles Reade 94, 204, 323, 492, 606 Gurowski Robert Carter 625 How my New Acquaintances Spin Dr. B. G. Wilder 129 Incidents of the Portland Fire 356 Indian Medicine John Mason Browne 113 Invalidism Miss C. P. Hawes 599 Italian Rain-Storm, An Mary Cowden Clarke 356 Johnson Party, The E. P. Whipple 374 Katharine Morne. I., II. Author of "Herman" 559, 697 CONTENTS. 2 The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July, 1866. Life Assurance 308 London Forty Years Ago John Neal 224 Maniac's Confession, A 170 My Heathen at Home J. W. Palmer 728 My Little Boy Mrs. M. L. Moody 361 Norman Conquest, The C. C. Hazewell 461 Novels of George Eliot, The Henry James, Jr. 479 Passages from Hawthorne's Note-Books. VII., VIII., IX., 40, 189, 288, 450, 536, X., XI, XII. 682 Physical History of the Valley of the Amazons. I., II. Louis Agassiz 49, 159 Pierpont, John John Neal 650 President and his Accomplices, The E. P. Whipple 634 Progress of Prussia, The C. C. Hazewell 578 Reconstruction Frederick Douglass 761 Retreat from Lenoir's, and the Siege of Knoxville. H. S. Burrage 21 Rhoda Ruth Harper 521 Scarabæi ed Altri W. J. Stillman 435 Singing-School Romance, The H. H. Weld 740 Surgeon's Assistant, The Caroline Chesebro 257 Through Broadway H. T. Tuckerman 717 University Reform F. H. Hedge 296 Usurpation, The George S. Boutwell 506 Various Aspects of the Woman Question F. Sheldon 425 What did she see with? Miss E. Stuart Phelps 146 CONTENTS. 3 The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July, 1866. Woman's Work in the Middle Ages Mrs. R. C. Waterston 274 Year in Montana, A Edward B. Nealley 236 Yesterday Mrs. H. Prescott 367 Spofford [Pg iv] Poetry. Autumn Song Forceythe Willson 746 Bobolinks, The C. P. Cranch 321 Death of Slavery, The W. C. Bryant 120 Friend, A C. P. Cranch 739 Her Pilgrimage H. B. Sargent 396 Late Champlain H. T. Tuckerman 365 Miantowona T. B. Aldrich 446 Miner, The James Russell Lowell 158 My Farm: a Fable Bayard Taylor 187 My Garden R. W. Emerson 665 On Translating the Divina Commedia H. W. Longfellow 11, 273, 544 Protoneiron H. B. Sargent 576 Released Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney 32 Song Sparrow, The A. West 599 Sword of Bolivar, The J. T. Trowbridge 713 Poetry. 4 The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July, 1866. To J. B. J. R. Lowell 47 Voice, The Forceythe Willson 307 Art. Marshall's Portrait of Abraham Lincoln 643 Reviews and Literary Notices. Aldrich's Poems 250 American Annual Cyclopædia, The 646 Bancroft's History of the United States 765 Barry Cornwall's Memoir of Charles Lamb 771 Beecher's Royal Truths 645 Browne's American Family in Germany 771 Carpenter's Six Months at the White House 644 Ecce Homo 122 Eichendorff's Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing 256 Eros, etc. 255 Evangeline, Maud Muller, Vision of Sir Launfal, and Flower-de-Luce, Illustrated 770 Field's History of the Atlantic Telegraph 647 Fifteen Days 128 Fisher's Life of Benjamin Silliman 126 Gilmore's Four Years in the Saddle 382 Harrington's Inside: a Chronicle of Secession 645 Laugel's United States during the War, and Goldwin Smith's Address on the Civil War in America 252 Art. 5 The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July, 1866. Marcy's Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border 255 Miss Ildrewe's Language of Flowers 646 Moens's English Travellers and Italian Brigands, and Abbott's Prison Life in the South 518 Porter's Giant Cities of Bashan, and Syria's Holy Places 125 Reade's Griffith Gaunt 767 Reed's Hospital Life in the Army of the Potomac 253 Saxe's Masquerade and other Poems 123 Simpson's History of the Gypsies 254 Wheaton's Elements of International Law 513 Whipple's Character and Characteristic Men 772 Wilkie Collins's Armadale 381 Recent American Publications 383, 648 [Pg 1] THE Reviews and Literary Notices. 6 ATLANTIC MONTHLY. A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics. VOL. XVIII—JULY, 1866.—NO. CV. 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. THE CASE OF GEORGE DEDLOW. The following notes of my own case have been declined on various pretexts by every medical journal to which I have offered them. There was, perhaps, some reason in this, because many of the medical facts which they record are not altogether new, and because the psychical deductions to which they have led me are not in themselves of medical interest. I ought to add, that a good deal of what is here related is not of any scientific value whatsoever; but as one or two people on whose judgment I rely have advised me to print my narrative with all the personal details, rather than in the dry shape in which, as a psychological statement, I shall publish it elsewhere, I have yielded to their views. I suspect, however, that the very character of my record will, in the eyes of some of my readers, tend to lessen the value of the metaphysical discoveries which it sets forth. I am the son of a physician, still in large practice, in the village of Abington, Scofield County, Indiana. Expecting to act as his future partner, I studied medicine in his office, and in 1859 and 1860 attended lectures at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. My second course should have been in the following year, but the outbreak of the Rebellion so crippled my father's means that I was forced to abandon my intention. The demand for army surgeons at this time became very great; and although not a graduate, I found no difficulty in getting the place of Assistant-Surgeon to the Tenth Indiana Volunteers. In the subsequent Western campaigns this organization suffered so severely, that, before the term of its service was over, it was merged in the Twenty-First Indiana Volunteers; and I, as an extra surgeon, ranked by the medical officers of the latter regiment, was transferred to the Fifteenth Indiana Cavalry. Like many physicians, I had contracted a strong taste for army life, and, disliking cavalry service, sought and obtained the position of First-Lieutenant in the Seventy-Ninth Indiana Volunteers,—an infantry regiment of excellent character. On the day after I assumed command of my company, which had no captain, we were sent to garrison a part[Pg 2] of a line of block-houses stretching along the Cumberland River below Nashville, then occupied by a portion of the command of General Rosecrans. The life we led while on this duty was tedious, and at the same time dangerous in the extreme. Food was scarce and bad, the water horrible, and we had no cavalry to forage for us. If, as infantry, we attempted to levy supplies upon the scattered farms around us, the population seemed suddenly to double, and in the shape of guerillas "potted" us industriously from behind distant trees, rocks, or hasty earthworks. Under these various and unpleasant influences, combined with a fair infusion of malaria, our men rapidly lost health and spirits. Unfortunately, no proper medical supplies had been forwarded with our small force (two companies), and, as the fall advanced, the want of quinine and stimulants became a serious annoyance. Moreover, our rations were running low; we had been three weeks without a new supply; and our commanding officer, Major Terrill, began to be uneasy as to the safety of his men. About this time it was supposed that a train with rations would be due from the post twenty miles to the north of us; yet it was quite possible that it would bring us food, but no medicines, which were what we most needed. The command was too small to detach any part of it, and the Major therefore resolved to send an officer alone to the post above us, where the rest of the Seventy-Ninth lay, and whence they could easily forward quinine and stimulants by the train, if it had not left, or, if it had, by a ATLANTIC MONTHLY.