The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860

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The New Discussion of the Trinity, Containing Notices of Professor Huntington's Recent Defence of that Doctrine, reprinted from Various Sources; together with Sermons by Rev. Thos. Starr King and Dr. Orville Dewey. Boston. Walker, Wise, & Co. 12mo. pp. viii., 244. 63 cts.

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Forty Years' Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D.D. Constituting, with the Notes, a Memoir of his Life. Edited by his Surviving Correspondent, John Hall, D.D. In Two Volumes. New York. Charles Scribner. 12mo. pp. viii., 412, 379. $2.50.

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Student-Songs. Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. Pittsburgh. W.S. Haven. 12mo. pp. 50.

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The Countess and the Page. A Tale of Florentine Society. By G.W.M. Reynolds. Philadelphia. Peterson & Brothers. 8vo. pp. 190. 50 cts.

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notes

1

Rob of the Bowl.

2

But few statistics relating to this subject are in existence; but those few quite bear out these observations. According to the official returns of the District of Amatitlan in Guatemala, the whole number of births in that Department for the year 1858 was 1394, of which 581 were illegitimate!

3

See "The Poet's Friends," Atlantic Monthly, vol. v., p. 185.

4

Since this article was written, Mr. Peacock, an early friend of Shelley, has published a very different estimate of the character of Harriet Shelley. See Fraser's Magazine for March, 1860.

5

Vide Proceedings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1859, and London Athenæum, passim. It appears to be conceded that these "celts" or stone knives are artificial productions, and of the age of the mammoth, the fossil rhinoceros, etc.

6

See Correspondence of M. Nicklès, in American Journal of Science and Arts, for March, 1860.

7

See Morlet, Some General Views on Archæology, in American Journal of Science and Arts, for January, 1860, translated from Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise, 1859.