The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 2/Number 5

Articles and stories

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