class="newlet">Barbara Frietchie

John G. Whittier 72. Birds of Killingworth, The H.W. Longfellow 74. By the River J.T. Trowbridge 69. Equinoctial Mrs. A.D.T. Whitney 72. Her Epitaph T.W. Parsons 69. Hilary Lucy Larcom 70. In an Attic Mrs. Paul Akers 74. King's Wine, The T.B. Aldrich 73. Love's Challenge T.W. Parsons 70. Loyal Woman's No, A   74. Lyrics of the Street Mrs. Julia Ward Howe 71. My Palace A. West 72. New Sangreal, The Rose Terry 71. No and Yes Theodore Tilton 71. Pewee, The J.T. Trowbridge 72. Seaward Mrs. A.D.T. Whitney 70. Something Left Undone H.W. Longfellow 73. Thoreau's Flute Louisa M. Alcott 71. Two Scenes from the Life of Blondel James Russell Lowell 73. Voluntaries R.W. Emerson 72. Weariness H.W. Longfellow 73. White-Throated Sparrow, The A. West 70. Wraith of Odin, The H.W. Longfellow 69. REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES. ISSUE. Cullum's Systems of Military Bridges 74. Dicey's Six Months in the Federal States 71. Fuller's Good Thoughts in Bad Times 74. Hospital Transports 71. Howitt's History of the Supernatural 71. Kemble's, Frances Anne, Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 70. Kirk's History of Charles the Bold 74. Livermore's Historical Research 70. Long's Translation of the Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus 72. Lyell's Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man 69. Mitchell's Astronomy of the Bible 69. Phillips's, Wendell, Speeches, Lectures, and Letters 74. Richter's Levana 72. Spurgeon's Sermons 69. Substance and Shadow 69. Ticknor's History of Spanish Literature 73. Washburn on the American Law of Easements and Servitudes 69. RECENT AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS 69, 70, 73, 74.

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THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY.

A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS.

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VOL. XII.—JULY, 1863.—NO. LXIX.

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DOINGS OF THE SUNBEAM.

Few of those who seek a photographer's establishment to have their portraits taken know at all into what a vast branch of commerce this business of sun-picturing has grown. We took occasion lately to visit one of the principal establishments in the country, that of Messrs. E. & H.T. Anthony, in Broadway, New York. We had made the acquaintance of these gentlemen through the remarkable instantaneous stereoscopic views published by them, and of which we spoke in a former article in terms which some might think extravagant. Our unsolicited commendation of these marvellous pictures insured us a more than polite reception. Every detail of the branches of the photographic business to which they are more especially devoted was freely shown us, and "No Admittance" over the doors of their inmost sanctuaries came to mean for us, "Walk in; you are heartily welcome."

We should be glad to tell our readers of all that we saw in the two establishments of theirs which we visited, but this would take the whole space which we must distribute among several subdivisions of a subject that offers many points of interest. We must confine ourselves to a few glimpses and sketches.

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The guests of the neighboring hotels, as they dally with their morning's omelet, little imagine what varied uses come out of the shells which furnished them their anticipatory repast of disappointed chickens. If they had visited Mr. Anthony's upper rooms, they would have seen a row of young women before certain broad, shallow pans filled with the glairy albumen which once enveloped those potential fowls.

The one next us takes a large sheet of photographic paper, (a paper made in Europe for this special purpose, very thin,