The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 2/Number 9

Articles and stories

• The Catacombs of Rome by Charles Eliot Norton

  Note to the Catacombs of Rome by Charles Eliot Norton

• Three of Us by Rose Terry Cooke
• Songs of the Sea by Walter Mitchell
• The Kinloch Estate, and How it Was Settled by Francis Henry Underwood
• A Perilous Bivouac by Charles Dawson Shanly
• The Gaucho by William Frederick Mayers
• Mademoiselle's Campaigns, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
• The Denslow Palace by James Davenport Whelpley
• The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• The American Tract Society by James Russell Lowell
• Literary Notices
• Chesuncook by Henry David Thoreau

Poems

• "What a Wretched Woman Said to Me", by Alice Cary
• "The Swan-Song of Parson Avery", by John Greenleaf Whittier
• "Myrtle Flowers", by Benjamin Franklin Presbury
• "The Two Armies", by Oliver Wendell Holmes