The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859

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Various. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859

The Life and Works of Ary Scheffer

A Visit to Martha's Vineyard

OCTOBER TO MAY

The Eleusinia

The Minister's Wooing

Chapter XXII

Chapter XXIII

Chapter XXIV

Once and Now

A Trip to Cuba

Zelma's Vow

Part Second. How it was Kept

The Murder of the Innocents

A Second Epistle to Dolorosus

My Double; and How He Undid Me

The Singer

The Professor at the Breakfast-Table

What He Said, What He Heard, and What He Saw

Midsummer

Reviews and Literary Notices

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We have all, in our days of atlases and "the use of the globes," been made aware of the fact, that off the southern shore of Massachusetts lies a long and narrow island, called Martha's Vineyard, one of the many defences thrown out by the beleaguered New England coast against its untiring foe, the Atlantic.

In the first place, the delicious suggestiveness of the name,—Martha's Vineyard! At once we ask, Who was Martha? and how did she use her vineyard? Was she the thrifty wife of some old Puritan proprietor of untamed acres?—and did she fancy the wild grapes of this little island, fuller of flavor, and sweeter for the manufacture of her jellies and home-made wine, than those which grew elsewhere?—and did she come in the vintage season, with her children and her friends, to gather in the rich purple clusters, bearing them back as did the Israelitish spies, to show the fatness of the promised land?

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The morning after their arrival, our travellers, strong with the vigor of the young day, set forth to explore the cliffs, bidding adieu to original Youth, who, standing ready to depart, beside his horse, was carolling the following ditty in glorification of his native town:—

(Oldtown being synonymous with Edgartown, the rival seaport.)

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