The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 14/Number 81

Articles and stories

• The Wife's Story by Rebecca Harding Davis
• Glorying in the Goad by Gail Hamilton
• Saadi by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Wet-Weather Work by Donald Grant Mitchell
• Mexico by George William MacArthur Reynolds
• The Rim by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
• On Horseback into Oregon by Fitz-Hugh Ludlow
• Ice-Period in America by Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
• House and Home Papers by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Hawthorne by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• A Scene from the Dolliver Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Currency by George Lang
• Meyerbeer by Francis Howard Williams
• The May Campaign in Virginia by Charles Carleton Coffin
• Reviews and Literary Notices
• Recent American Publications

Poems

• Palingenesis by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The Return of the Birds by William Cullen Bryant
• Watching
• In Memory of J. W.—R. W. by Oliver Wendell Holmes