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