The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 9/Number 54

Articles and stories

• Letter to a Young Contributor, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
• John Lamar, by Rebecca Harding Davis
• Individuality, by David Atwood Wasson
• The German Burns, by Bayard Taylor
• The Forester, by Amos Bronson Alcott
• Methods of Study in Natural History, by Louis Agassiz
• Arthur Hugh Clough, by Charles Eliot Norton
• What shall we do with them?, by Walter Mitchell
• Agnes of Sorrento, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Then and Now in the Old Dominion, by Moncure Daniel Conway
• American Civilization, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• A Message of Jeff Davis in Secret Session, by James Russell Lowell
• Reviews and Literary Notices

Poems

• Mountain Pictures, by John Greenleaf Whittier
• The Strasburg Clock
• Exodus, by Adeline Train Whitney
• Compensation, by Ralph Waldo Emerson