The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 2/Number 4

Articles and stories

• Eloquence
• The Kinloch Estate, and How it Was Settled
• Rambles in Aquidneck
• Ann Potter's Lesson
• Youth
• Pintal
• Daphnaides: or the English Laurel, from Chaucer to Tennyson
• Water-Lilies
• Illinois in Spring-Time: with a Look at Chicago
• An Evening with the Telegraph Wires
• The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
• My Last Walk with the Schoolmistress
• Literary Notices
• Obituary

Poems

• "The Birth-Mark", author not attributed
• "Le Marais Du Cygne", by John Greenleaf Whittier
• "The House that was just like its Neighbors", author not attributed
• "Fifty and Fifteen", anonymous