The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 2/Number 4

Articles and stories

• Eloquence, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The Kinloch Estate, and How it Was Settled, by Francis Henry Underwood
• Rambles in Aquidneck, by Annie Rebecca Coggeshall
• Ann Potter's Lesson, by Rose Terry Cooke
• Youth, by John Albee
• Pintal, by James Madison Drake
• Daphnaides: or the English Laurel, from Chaucer to Tennyson, by Charles Graham Halpine
• Water-Lilies, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
• Illinois in Spring-Time: with a Look at Chicago, by Caroline Matilda Kirkland
• An Evening with the Telegraph Wires, by Christopher Pearse Cranch
• The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• My Last Walk with the Schoolmistress
• Literary Notices
• Obituary

Poems

• "The Birth-Mark", by Thomas Fullerton
• "Le Marais Du Cygne", by John Greenleaf Whittier
• "The House that was just like its Neighbors", author not attributed
• "Fifty and Fifteen", anonymous