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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107,
by Various
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Title: The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
Author: Various
Release Date: December 5, 2007 [EBook #23743]
Language: English
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THE
ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics.
VOL. XVIII.--SEPTEMBER, 1866.--NO. CVII.
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 have been corrected and footnotes moved to the end of the article.
THE SURGEON'S ASSISTANT.
I.
The sickness of the nation not being unto death, we now begin to number its advantages. They will not all be numbered by this generation; and as for story-tellers, essayists, letter-writers, historians, and philosophers, if their "genius" flags in half a century