The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 1/Number 4

Articles and stories

• The Great Failure
• The Librarian's Story
• Something About Pictures
• Cretins and Idiots: What Has Been and What Can Be Done for Them
• Amours de Voyage
• My Aquarium
• The Queen of the Red Chessmen
• Tea
• The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
• Béranger
• A Tiffin of Paragraphs
• New England Ministers
• A Brief Review of the Kansas Usurpation
• Art
• Literary Notices

Poems

• "The Busts of Goethe and Schiller", by William Allen Butler
• "Daylight and Moonlight", by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• "Daybreak", by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• "The Old Burying-Ground", by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• "The Relief of Lucknow", by Robert Traill Spence Lowell
• "Sonnet", by Paul Hamilton Hayne