Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by Ticknor andFields, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District ofMassachusetts.
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THE GUARDIAN ANGEL.
OPINIONS OF THE LATE DR. NOTT RESPECTING BOOKS, STUDIES, AND ORATORS.
CRETAN DAYS.
CHANSON WITHOUT MUSIC.
THE ROSE ROLLINS.
ARE THE CHILDREN AT HOME?
IN THE GRAY GOTH.
BUSY BRAINS.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A QUACK.
"THE LIE."
THE BOWERY AT NIGHT.
STEPHEN C. FOSTER AND NEGRO MINSTRELSY.
THE FEAST OF HARVEST.
A GREAT PUBLIC CHARACTER.
THE CONSPIRACY AT WASHINGTON,
REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES.
Lawyer Penhallow was seated in his study, his day's work over, his feetin slippers, after the comfortable but inelegant fashion which SirWalter Scott reprobates, amusing himself with a volume of old Reports.He was a knowing man enough, a keen country lawyer, but honest, andtherefore less ready to suspect the honesty of others. He had a greatbelief in his young partner's ability, and, though he knew him to beastute, did not think him capable of roguery.
It was at his request that Mr. Bradshaw had undertaken his journey,which, as he believed,—and as Mr. Bradshaw had still stronger evidenceof a strictly confidential nature which led him to feel sure,—would endin the final settlement of the great land claim in favor of theirclient. The case had been dragging along from year to year, like anEnglish chancery suit; and while courts and lawyers and witnesses hadbeen sleeping, the property had been steadily growing. A railroad hadpassed close to one margin of the township, some mines had been openedin the county, in which a village calling itself a city had grown bigenough to have a newspaper and Fourth of July orations. It was plainthat the successful issue of the long process would make the heirs ofthe late Malachi Withers possessors of an ample fortune, and it was alsoplain that the firm of Penhallow and Bradshaw were like to receive, insuch case, the largest fee that had gladdened the professional existenceof its members.
Mr. Penhallow had his book open be