The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 1/Number 4

THE

ATLANTIC MONTHLY.

A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS.

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VOL. I.—FEBRUARY, 1858.—NO. IV.

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Articles and stories

• The Great Failure
• The Librarian's Story, by Frederick Beecher Perkins
• Something About Pictures, by Henry Theodore Tuckerman
• Cretins and Idiots: What Has Been and What Can Be Done for Them, by Linus Pierpont Brockett
• My Aquarium, by Annie Rebecca Coggeshall
• The Queen of the Red Chessmen, by Lucretia Peabody Hale
• Tea, by Osmond Tiffany
• The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Béranger, by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (James Russell Lowell tr.)
• A Tiffin of Paragraphs, by John William Palmer
• New England Ministers, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• A Brief Review of the Kansas Usurpation, by Parke Godwin
• Art
• Literary Notices

Poems

• "Amours de Voyage", by Arthur Hugh Clough
• "The Busts of Goethe and Schiller", by William Allen Butler
• "Daylight and Moonlight", by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• "Daybreak", by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• "The Old Burying-Ground", by John Greenleaf Whittier
• "The Relief of Lucknow", by Robert Traill Spence Lowell
• "Sonnet", by Paul Hamilton Hayne