1860/03 -- 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:

  • The French Character
  • The Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties
  • "Implora Pace"
  • The Progress of the Electric Telegraph
  • Love and Self-Love
  • To the Muse
  • Screw-Propulsion
  • White Mice
  • For Christie's Sake
  • The Nursery Blarney-Stone
  • The Professor's Story
  • Is the Religious Want of the Age Met?

    • Reviews and Literary Notices:

  • Ludwig van Beethoven - Leben und Schaffen
  • Reminiscences of Rufus Choate, by E. G. Parker
  • History of the Whig Party, by R. M. Ormsby
  • The West Indies and the Spanish Main, by A. Trollope
  • Public Life of Captain John Brown, by J. Redpath
  • Poems by Sydney Dobell
  • A Good Fight, and other Tales, by Charles Reade
  • The Undergraduate
  • Recent American Publications