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THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS, IS UNIVERSALLY RECOGNIZED AS THE BEST AMERICAN MAGAZINE.

THE FOURTEENTH VOLUME

Of the Atlantic commences with the number for July, 1864. Its com- mencement affords the Publishers an occasion to say that the Atlantic has attained a circulation and prosperity never equalled by any American magazine of its class. The prosperity of the Atlantic enables its conductors to employ the most eminent talent of the country in its columns. All the best known writers in American literature, contributing constantly to its pages, give it the sole right to be known as our national magazine. Its staff comprises the following names among its leading contributors : —

James Russell Lowell, Henry W. Longfellow, Louis Agassiz, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Sumner, Robert Dale Owen, George W. Curtis, C. C. Hazewell, T. W. Higginson, Author of" Margret Howth," Thomas W. Parsons, Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, T. Buchanan Read, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John G. Whittier, Gail Hamilton, E. P. Whipple, Bayard Taylor, Charles E. Norton, Francis Parkman, John G. Palfrey, George S. Hillard, Henry Giles, Walter Mitchell, Henry T. Tuckerman, John Weiss, Francis Wayland, Jr., William Cullen Bryant, Mrs. H. B. Stowe, Harriet Martineau, " Ik Marvel," David A. Wasson, "The Country Parson," Rose Terry, Harriet E. Prescott, Robert T. S. Lowell, J. T. Trowbridge, Josiah P. Quincy, Prof. A. D. White, Edward E. Hale, F. Sheldon.

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