The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 2/Number 6

Articles and stories

• Railway-Engineering in the United States, by Thomas Curtis Clarke
• Her Grace, the Drummer's Daughter, by Charlotte Forten Grimké
• Colin Clout and the Faëry Queen, by Charles Graham Halpine
• Thomas Jefferson, by William Dorsheimer
• A Prisoner of War, by James R. Ware
• Physical Courage, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
• A Visit to the Autocrat's Landlady, by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• The Great Event of the Century, by Charles Tabor Congdon
• A Sample of Consistency, by James Russell Lowell
• Literary Notices
• Miss Wimple's Hoop, by John Williamson Palmer

Poems

• "A Last Look", by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• "Nature and the Philosopher", by Christopher Pearse Cranch
• "The "Washing of the Feet," on Holy Thursday, in St. Peter's", by Aubrey Thomas de Vere
• "November", by Elizabeth Stoddard