Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by TICKNOR ANDFIELDS, in the Clerk's Officeof the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
THE SPANIARD AND THE HERETIC.
WEARINESS.
MRS. LEWIS.
THE FORMATION OF GLACIERS.
TWO SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF BLONDEL.
NIGHT AND MOONLIGHT.
ANDANTE.
THE BROTHERS.
THE SAM ADAMS REGIMENTS IN THE TOWN OF BOSTON.—CONCLUDED.
WET-WEATHER WORK.
THE FRENCH STRUGGLE FOR NAVAL AND COLONIAL POWER.
SOMETHING LEFT UNDONE.
THE GREAT INSTRUMENT.
THE KING'S WINE.
MONOGRAPH FROM AN OLD NOTE-BOOK; WITH A POSTSCRIPT.
REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES.
RECENT AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS
[In the August number of the "Atlantic," under the title of"The Fleur-de-Lis in Florida," will be found a narrativeof the Huguenot attempts to occupy that country, which,exciting the jealousy of Spain, gave rise to the crusadewhose history is recorded below.]
The monk, the inquisitor, the Jesuit,these were the lords of Spain,—sovereignsof her sovereign, for they had formedand fed the dark and narrow mindof that tyrannical recluse. They hadformed and fed the minds of her people,quenched in blood every spark of risingheresy, and given over a noble nation tobigotry, dark, blind, inexorable as thedoom of fate. Linked with pride, ambition,avarice, every passion of a rich,strong nature, potent for good and ill, itmade the Spaniard of that day a scourgeas dire as ever fell on man.
Day was breaking on the world. Light,hope, freedom, pierced with vitalizing raythe clouds and the miasma that hung sothick over the prostrate Middle Age,once noble and mighty, now a foul imageof decay and death. Kindled with newlife, the nations teemed with a progenyof heroes, and the stormy glories of thesixteenth century rose on awakened Europe.But Spain was the citadel ofdarkness,—a monastic cell, an inquisitorialdungeon, where no ray could pierce.She was the bulwark of the Church,against whose adamantine front the wrathof innovation beat in vain. In everycountry of Europe the party of freedomand reform was the national party, theparty of reaction and absolutism was theSpanish party, leaning on Spain, lookingto her for help. Above all, it was soin France; and while within her boundsthere was a semblance of peace, the nation