The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 2/Number 5

Articles and stories

 * $The New World and the New Man$, by Charlotte Forten Grimké
 * $Her Grace, the Drummer's Daughter$, by Therese Albertine Luise Robinson
 * $The German Popular Legend of Doctor Faustus$ (Part 12 of 12), by Oliver Wendell Holmes
 * $Miss Wimple's Hoop$, by Edward Everett Hale
 * $The Language of the Sea$ (Part 12 of 12), by Oliver Wendell Holmes
 * $The Whirligig of Time$, by Edward Everett Hale
 * $The Birds of the Garden and Orchard$ (Part 12 of 12), by Oliver Wendell Holmes
 * $The Old Well$, by Edward Everett Hale
 * $The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table$ (Part 12 of 12), by Oliver Wendell Holmes
 * $The Professor Under Chloroform$, by Edward Everett Hale
 * $Literary Notices$, by Edward Everett Hale
 * $The Dot and Line Alphabet$, by Edward Everett Hale

Poems

 * "$The Poet Keats$", author not attributed
 * "$Waldeinsamkeit$", by Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * "$The Cup$", by John Townsend Trowbridge
 * "$The Telegraph$", by John Greenleaf Whittier
 * "$The Dead House$", by James Russell Lowell