The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 2/Number 7

Articles and stories

• The Ideal Tendency, by Joseph Brownlee Brown
• The Hour Before Dawn, by Mary Fraser Curtis
• Thomas Jefferson, by William Dorsheimer
• A Bundle of Irish Pennants, by Walter Mitchell
• Suggestions, by C. N. Bovee
• Bulls and Bears by Francis Henry Underwood
• Punch, by Thomas Bayley Fox
• The Subjective of It, by William James Stillman
• The Birds of the Pasture and Forest, by Wilson Flagg
• The Minister's Wooing, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Literary Notices
• The Autocrat Gives a Breakfast to the Public, by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Poems

• "The Skater", by Hiram Rich
• "The Jolly Mariner", by John Godfrey Saxe
• "Spirits in Prison", by Christopher Pearse Cranch
• "All's Well", by David Atwood Wasson