The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 1/Number 5

Articles and stories

• The Catacombs of Rome, by Charles Eliot Norton
• Eben Jackson, by Rose Terry Cooke
• A Welch Musical Festival, by John Ross Dix
• My Journal to my Cousin Mary
• The Grindwell Governing Machine, by Christopher Pearse Cranch
• Saints, and Their Bodies, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
• Aaron Burr, by William Dorsheimer
• The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Child-life by the Ganges, by John William Palmer
• Music
• Literary Notices
• Dr. Wichern and his Pupils, by Linus Pierpont Brockett

Poems

• "Amours de Voyage", by Arthur Hugh Clough
• "The Nest", by James Russell Lowell
• "Cornucopia", by Christopher Pearse Cranch
• "The Psyche", by Edna Dean Proctor
• "Beauty", by John Townsend Trowbridge
• "By the Dead", by Thomas Fullerton