THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY Our congratulations, belated but not the less
sincere, must go
to the Atlantic Monthly, which has just celebrated its seventy- fifth anniversary. It was founded at Boston in November 1857 by some of the most distinguished of American men of letters—Lowell, Emerson, Longfellow, Motley and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Lowell was the first editor and Holmes his chief contributor with the " Breakfast Table " series. The present editor, who has held the-post for twenty-five years and has maintained the Atlantic's fine traditions, has filled the November " diamond jubilee " number with articles selected from past issues, including Wendell Holmes's " My Hunt after the Captain "—the captain being his son who was wounded at Antietam—and a paper " On being Human " which reveals the lighter side of Woodrow Wilson's austere personality.
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