The Atlantic Monthly. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—A. poem by John
Greenleaf Whittier is the chief distinction of this number. It is entitled "Revelation," and is an eloquent protest against Mate- rialism, the opening stanzas being particularly fine. Mr. H. C. Lodge gives a sketch of Gouverneur Morris, one of the founders of the American Republic, with which we have no fault to find, except that it is disfigured by violent anti-English prejudice. "English Ministers," writes Mr. Lodge, " with that sagacity which has always characterised them in dealing with the United States, were determined to injure us as far as they could, and make us enemies instead of friends." The record of the dealings between the two nations does not justify this language, which ought not to be allowed to appear in a periodical welcomed on both sides of the Atlantic. If we had done to the States the unfriendly acts which they have done to us, there would have been war over and over again. Mr. Julian Hawthorne discusses the" Problems of the Scarlet Letter;" Mr. James continues his story of the Princess Casamassima ; and there is an interesting account of Madame Mohl's salon.
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