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1861-01 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

1861/01 — 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:

  • Washington City
  • Midsummer and May
  • Paul Revere’s Ride
  • A Night under Ground
  • A Lonely House
  • Barbarism and Civilization
  • Who was Caspar Hauser? — 10 page article, written 28 years after Hauser’s death in 1833
  • Pampenea
  • The Professor’s Story
  • The Test
  • Recollections of Keats
  • The European Crisis
  • A Visit to an Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters
  • The Question of the Hour
  • Don Diego Garcia de Palacio, Carta dirigida al Rey de Espana

    • Reviews and Literary Notices:

  • Squier’s Collection of Rare and Original Documents and Relations concerning the Discovery and Conquest of America
  • Le Panlatinisme
  • Testament de Pierre le Grand
  • Chamber’s Edinburgh Papers
  • Clyne’s Romantic Scottish Ballads
  • Prior’s Ancient Danish Ballads
  • Miss Gilbert’s Career
  • Recent American Publications