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ART. Boston Art-Club Exhibitions, 371, 755; Children in Italian and English Design, 372; Household Art
Company, 244; Inness and his Pictures, 114; Lodge's Winckelmann, Fourth and last Volume of, 503;
Milmore's Sphinx, 116; Museum Exhibition, Additions to, 629; Spartali-Stillman (Mrs.), Two Pictures
by, 370; Supposed Tintoretto and Rembrandt, 627; Wood (Mr. Marshall) on Ward's Shakespeare, 630;
Ward's Shakespeare and the Nation, 246.

MUSIC. Liebe (Miss), 506; Lucca in Opera, 374; Mehlig (Miss), 249: Moulton (Mrs.), 249: New
Music, 376; National College of Music, 376; Osgood, 249; Paine's Oratorio of St. Peter, 506; Ruders-
dorff (Madame), 505; Recent Publications, 117, 630; Thomas's Orchestra, 247; Varley, 506; Wie-
niawski, 119.

SCIENCE. Bastian's Beginnings of Life, 633; Bagehot's Physics and Politics, 250; Chapman's Evolution

of Life, 120; Figuier's Insect World, 251; Johnson's Natural Philosophy, 251; Luminiferous Ether,

122; Man in the Miocene Period, 757; Max Müller and Darwinism, 379; Moon's Atmosphere, The,

758; Origin of Echinoderms, 121; Tyndall's Lectures, 122; Sun-spots and Rainfall, 377; Van der

Wijck's Psychology, 379; Winchell's Geology of the Stars, 759; Wood's Sunstroke, 251.

POLITICS. A better Understanding with England, 123; Cause of Temperance, The, 509; Grant and the
Civil Service, 761; Newspapers and the Courts, 252; Possibilities of Political Reform, 637; “Presump-
tion in Favor of Innocence," 762; Railroad Despotism, 380.

THE

ATLANTIC MONTHLY.

Magazine of
of Literature, Science, Art,
and Politics.

VOL. XXXI. — JANUARY, 1873. — NO. CLXXXIII.

A CHAPTER OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

Que faites vous là, seul et rêveur?"

Je m'entretiens avec moi même." "Ah! prenez garde du péril extrême De causer avec un flatteur."

N the winter of 1858-59 I was threading the streets of Glasgow, Scotland, seeking the residence of an old friend, formerly my father's confidential clerk, and who still, though an octogenarian, rejoiced in the name of John Wright, Junior.

It was a portion of the city that had grown up many years after I had known anything of Glasgow. Uncertain of my way and having for some time scrutinized the countenances of the passers-by, as is my wont before accosting any one in the street, I met a face that pleased me; hale, ruddy, the shadow of some sixty years resting lightly and cheerfully upon it, despite the snow on head and beard: a benignant face, of leisure, that did not look as if it would grudge five minutes to a stranger. It lit up kindly when I asked how I should find the street I sought.

"I am going in that direction and shall be glad to walk with you." Then, after a pause: "You'll be a stranger

The well-known acin Glasgow ?" cent and the turn of phrase brought all my youth back to me; and, in reply to my smile, he added: "Or are you a Scotchman yourself, may be ?"

"I scarcely know," I replied, "whether to call myself a stranger or not. It is more than thirty years since I have seen your city, yet Glasgow is my native place."

"Ah! In what part of the city were you born?"

"In Charlotte Street."

"Were you? But in which house was it?'

"In the last house on the right hand, next to the Green; close to the iron gates that used to close the street."

Why, man! That was David

Dale's house! How in the world did you happen to be born there?"

"Very naturally. I am his grand

son."

"An Owen, then?" "Yes."

He stretched out his hand; and the

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by JAMES R. OSGOOD & Co., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

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