The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 2/Number 1

Articles and stories

• Chesuncook (Part 1 of 3) by Henry David Thoreau
• Gottfried Wilhem von Leibnitz by Frederic Henry Hedge
• Letter-Writing
• A Few Scenes from a True History by Lydia Maria Child
• The Catacombs of Rome
• Metempsychosis
• Crawford and Sculpture
• Asirvadam the Brahmin
• What are We Going to Make?
• The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (part 8 of 12) by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• The President's Prophecy of Peace
• Literary Notices

Poems

• "La Cantatrice" by John Townsend Trowbridge
• "Beatrice", by James Russell Lowell
• "Shipwreck", by James Russell Lowell