Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 / Devoted to Literature and National Policy

CONTENTS. No. XVII.

The Great Prairie State. By Mrs. C. M. Kirkland,	513
A Winter in Camp. By E. G. Hammond,	519
In Memoriam. By Richard Wolcott,	527
A Merchant's Story. By Edmund Kirke,	528
Shylock vs. Antonio. By Carlton Edwards	539
A Heroine of To-Day,	543
National Ode,	554
The Surrender of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, on the Mississippi. By F. H. Gerdes. Assistant U. S. Coast Survey,	557
Reason, Rhyme, and Rhythm. By Mrs. Martha Cook,	562
The Value of the Union. By William H. Muller,	571
War Song—Earth's Last Battle. By Mrs. Martha Cook,	586
Miriam's Testimony. By M. A. Edwards,	589
The Destiny of the African Race in the United States. By Rev. J. M. Sturtevant, D.D.,	600
Was He Successful? By Richard B. Kimball,	611
The Union. By Hon. Robert J. Walker,	615
The Causes and Results of the War. By Lieut. Egbert Phelps, U.S.A	617
Great Heart,	629
Literary Notices	630

The June No. of the Continental will contain an article on 'The Confederation and the Nation,' by Edward Carey.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by James R. Gilmore, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

John F. Trow, Printer.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] This alliance may be fanciful (though we observe some of the best German lexicographers have it so); a better origin might, perhaps, be found in the Sanscrit mri, etc.

[2] 'Les Orientals,' par Victor Hugo. Le Feu du ciel.

[3] The 'by' may, however, have the force of going or passing, equivalent to 'fare' in 'farewell,' or 'welfare,' i. e., may you have a good passage or journey.

[4] 'Past and Present,' pp. 128, 129.

[5] Compare with this the Latin mundus, which is exactly analogous in signification.

[6] En-voir.

[7] Perhaps nothing could better prove how profoundly religious were the Latins than a word compounded of the above; namely 'profane.' A 'fanatic' was one who devoted himself to the fanum or temple—'profane' is an object devoted to anything else 'pro'—instead of—the 'fanum,' or fane.

[8] The word is more properly oriental than Greek, e. g., Hebrew, pardes, and Sanscrit, paradÊsa.

[9] See the Italian setvaggio and the Spanish salvage, in which a more approximate orthography has been retained.

[10] Ovid. Metamorphoseon, lib. xi. v. 183.

[11] HÆc autem erat Gnosticorum doctrina ethica, quod omnem virtutem in prudentia sitim esse credebant, quam OphitÆ per Metem (Sophiam) et Serpentem exprimebant, desumpto iterum ex Evangelii prÆcepto; estote prudentes ut serpentes,—ob innatem hujus animalis astutiam?—Von Hammer, Fundgruben des Orients, tom. vi. p. 85.

[12] New Curiosities of Literature. By Geo. Soane, London, 1849.

[13] Developpement des Abus introduits dans la Franc MaÇonnerie. Ecossois de Saint AndrÉ d'Écosse, &c., &c. Paris, 1780.

[14] London. TrÜbner &. Co., No. 60 Paternoster Row. 1861.

[15] 'Tota hÆc humanÆ vitÆ fabula, quÆ universitatem naturÆ et generis humani historiam constituit tota prius in intellectu divino prÆconcepta fuit cum infinitis aliis.'—Leibnitz, TheodicÆa, part 11, p. 149.

[16] Tickner and Fields' edition of Waverley Novels, Boston, 1858.

[17] The Poetry of the East. By William Rounseville Alger. Boston. Whittemore, Niles & Hall, 1856.

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[19] 'Not too much.'

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