The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 14/Number 81

Articles and stories

 * The Wife's Story by Rebecca Harding Davis
 * Glorying in the Goad by Gail Hamilton
 * Saadi by Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * Wet-Weather Work by Donald Grant Mitchell
 * Mexico by George William MacArthur Reynolds
 * The Rim by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
 * On Horseback into Oregon by Fitz-Hugh Ludlow
 * Ice-Period in America by Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
 * House and Home Papers by Harriet Beecher Stowe
 * Hawthorne by Oliver Wendell Holmes
 * A Scene from the Dolliver Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * Currency by George Lang
 * Meyerbeer by Francis Howard Williams
 * The May Campaign in Virginia by Charles Carleton Coffin
 * Reviews and Literary Notices
 * Recent American Publications

Poems

 * Palingenesis by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 * The Return of the Birds by William Cullen Bryant
 * Watching
 * In Memory of J. W.—R. W. by Oliver Wendell Holmes