The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 9/Number 53

• The Fruits of Free Labor in the Smaller Islands of the British West Indies, by Charles Loring Brace
• A Story of To-day, by Rebecca Blaine Harding
• Mountain Pictures, by John Greenleaf Whittier
• The Use of the Rifle, by H. W. S. Cleveland
• Agnes of Sorrento, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Methods of Study in Natural History, by Louis Agassiz
• The Southern Cross, by Adeline Train Whitney
• Concerning the Sorrows of Childhood by A. K. H. Boyd
• The Rehabilitation of Spain, by Charles Creighton Hazewell
• A Raft that No Man Made, by Robert Traill Spence Lowell
• Fremont's Hundred Days in Missouri, by William Dorsheimer
• Birdofredum Sawin, Esq., to Mr. Hosea Biglow, by James Russell Lowell
• Taxation, by Edward Everett
• Voyage of the Good Ship Union, by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Reviews and Literary Notices