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UNIVERSITY.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by

TICKNOR AND FIELDS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: STEREOTYPED BY H. O. HOUGHTON.

CONTENTS.

American, An, in the House of Lords.......Francis Wayland, Jr....

Brothers, The

Louisa M. Alcott.

Claims, The, to Service or Labor..

Continents, The Growth of.

Cuba, The Conquest of....

Deacon's Holocaust, The.

D. A. Wasson...
.Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Robert Dale Owen.
Prof. Louis Agassiz.

C. C. Hazewell..

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Mrs. Lewis...

Musician, The..

Night and Moonlight..

Our General.....

Gail Hamilton...

..J. E. Babson..

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..Prof. Louis Agassiz..

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of the..Prof. Louis Agassiz.

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Prof. Louis Agassiz...

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Author of "Margret Howth".

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.0. W. Holmes...

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Political Problems and Conditions of Peace.. Woodbury Davis..

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Sam Adams Regiments, The, in the Town of Boston..Richard Frothingham.

Gail Hamilton..

.H. T. Tuckerman

.F. Parkman

Animals..Prof. Louis Agassiz.

G. B. Prescott..

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THE

ATLANTIC MONTHLY.

A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS.

VOL. XII.-JULY, 1863.-NO. LXIX.

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.

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, smooth, and compact,) and floats it evenly on the surface of the albumen. Presently she lifts it very carefully by the turned-up corners and hangs it bias, as a seamstress might say, that is, cornerwise, on a string, to dry. This "albumenized" paper is sold most extensively to photographers, who find it cheaper to buy than to prepare it. It keeps for a long time uninjured, and is

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by TICKNOR AND FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

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