1860/01 -- Unfortunately for us now, early issues of "The Atlantic" did not employ bylines on its stories and articles, thus most items from the contents listed below are anonymous. When there is an article with a known author I will credit it below. Note: The following titles could be articles, stories or even short poems in some cases.

Contents as follows:

  • Our Artists in Italy
  • The Amber Gods
  • Song of Nature
  • Nemophily
  • Substance and Shadow
  • Through the Fields to Saint Peter's
  • The Experience of Samuel Absalom
  • Roba di Roma
  • Abdel Hassan
  • About Spires
  • The Professor's Story
  • Andenken
  • Central British America

    • Art:

  • Palmer's White Captive
  • Forest Photographs

    • Reviews and Literary Notices:

  • Plutarch's Lives, Edited by A. H. Clough
  • The Lost and Found, by S. B. Halliday
  • New American Cyclopaedia, Vol. VI
  • Avolio, and other Poems, by P. H. Hayne
  • Tom Brown at Oxford
  • Fairy Dreams, by Jane G. Austin
  • Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India, by Major W. S. R. Hodson
  • Friends in Council, New Series
  • The Marvellous Adventures and Rare Conceits of Master Tyll Owlglass
  • Reynard the Fox, by T. J. Arnold
  • Recent American Publications