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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866
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Title: The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics
Author: Various
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THE
ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
_A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics._
VOL. XVIII.--DECEMBER, 1866.--NO. CX.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by TICKNOR AND FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
[Transcriber's note: Minor typos corrected and footnotes moved to end of article.]
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JOHN PIERPONT.
Most men of "fourscore and upwards," like Lear, and who, like Lear, have been "mightily abused" in their day, are found, upon diligent inquiry, to have long outlived themselves, like th