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1958-01 The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents January 1958

1958/01 — Contents as follows:

  • Cover design by Gyorgy Kepes
  • Race and the Schools – A Crisis North and South by Agnes E. Meyer
  • The Honeymoon — An Atlantic First by Betty Andrews Blunt
  • A Little Book of Hours — A Poem by Philip Murray
  • Wanted: A National Science Policy by Lloyd V. Berkner
  • The Scientist in the U.S.S.R. by John Turkevich
  • Love Affair – An Atlantic First by Ian Cross
  • The Isolation of the American Artist by Archibald MacLeish
  • Melchior Vulpius — A Poem by Marianne Moore
  • Escape to America: The Hungarians One Year Later by Ida Bobula
  • The Years With Ross by James Thurber
  • Advertising Is Not a Plot by Fairfax M. Cone

    • Atlantic Reports:

  • Berlin
  • Afghanistan
  • London

    • Atlantic Bookshelf:

  • The Peripateric Reviewer by Edward Weeks
  • Reader’s Choice by Charles Rolo

    • Accent on Living:

  • Charles W. Morton – William K. Goolrick, Jr. – George Starbuck Galbraith – Carl Rose – R.P. Lister – A.C. Greene – Peg Bracken
  • Record Reviews by John M. Conly

    • Pleasures and Places:

  • England by Canoe by Paul Brooks

    • 1957-12 The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents December 1957

    1957/12 — Contents as follows:

  • Cover design by Gyorgy Kepes
  • Atlantic Reports: Washington – Germany – Red China – Colombia
  • The Right to Vote by Senator Paul H. Douglas
  • Mid-Summer — A Poem by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • The Years with Ross by James Thurber
  • The Guest — A Story by Albert Camus
  • Hospital Ward by Anonymous
  • Our Isolation from the Arab World by William R. Polk
  • The Basket Maker — A Poem by Padraic Colum
  • That Beautiful Shore — An Atlantic First by James M. Idema
  • Song for a Bad Night — A Poem by John Moffitt
  • The Public and Smoking by Clarence Cook Little

    • Mass Communications – An Atlantic Supplement (Section over 75 pages)

  • What Makes News by T.S. Matthews
  • Motion Pictures and Pay TV by Mervyn LeRoy
  • Discipline and Reward: A Writer’s Life by Catherine Drinker Bowen
  • The Camera’s Eye by Yousuf Karsh
  • Speaking of Music by Leonard Bernstein
  • Textbooks That Don’t Teach by Oscar Handlin
  • The Vanishing Comedian by Steve Allen
  • Books: Gunpowder of the Mind by David Riesman
  • Norman Rockwell ‘s America by Wright Morris
  • Telephones, People and Machines by J.R. Pierce
  • The Birth of Radio Drama by Richard Hughes
  • What a Journalist Needs by Louis Lyons
  • Book Publishing: The Changes I’ve Seen by Alfred A. Knopf

    • Atlantic Bookshelf:

  • The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks
  • Reader’s Choice by Charles Rolo
  • Children’s Books: A Christmas List by Charlotte Jackson
  • Accent on Living
  • They Shall Have Music by John M. Conly

    • 1957-05 The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents May 1957

    1957/05 — Contents as follows:

  • Cover design by Russell Carpenter
  • Atlantic Reports: Kashmir – Washington – France
  • Epitaph for a Tough Guy by Alistair Cooke – 4-1/2 pages of solid text remembering Humphrey Bogart
  • The Fever — A Poem by Robert Graves
  • Dissension in the AEC by Warren Unna
  • My Life, My Cello by Gregor Piatigorsky
  • Cattle Raids on the King Ranch by Tom Lea
  • Worlds Apart – Classes and Masses in the Communist State by Oscar Handlin
  • The Music Teacher – A Story by Nathaniel Lamar
  • Ascari’s Least Curve by John Fitch
  • My Table Tennis Racket by Bruce Bliven, Jr.

    • Books and Men:

  • Sean O’Faolain by John V. Kelleher
  • What Is Good English? by Margaret Nicholson

    • Atlantic Bookshelf:

  • The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks
  • Books the Editors Like

  • Reader’s Choice by Charles J. Rolo

    • Accents on Living:

  • Charles W. Morton – Jean Tigar – W.G. Hite – Alex Atkinson – Carol Earle Chapin
  • Record Reviews by John M. Conly

    • Pleasures and Places:

  • Tourist in Holland by Charles J. Rolo

    • 1957-06 The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents June 1957

    1957/06 — Contents as follows:

  • Cover design by Noel Martin
  • Atlantic Reports: Washington – London – Hong Kong
  • This Was Dylan by Caitlin Thomas – About the late Dylan Thomas by his wife in an exerpt from her then forthcoming book
  • When Billy Graham Saved Scotland by R.B. Robertson
  • Composing by Igor Stravinsky
  • Lazy Journalism by John Gould
  • That’s Funny, Wasn’t It? — A Poem by Ogden Nash
  • A Kelly Green Sweater — A Story by Mitchell J. Struccinski
  • The Lost Planet by N.J. Berrill
  • The Community College by Sigurd Rislov
  • A Life in Art — A Story by Wolf Mankowitz

    • Books and Men:

  • Beaumont and Fletcher by John Masefield
  • New Voices in Poetry – Leah Bodine Drake

    • Atlantic Bookshelf:

  • The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks

  • Reader’s Choice by Charles J. Rolo

    • Accents on Living:

  • Charles W. Morton – Lorraine Lehan Hopkins – Newman Levy – William O’Hallaren – C.S. Jennison – Louise Vila – Lewis Tenney Ross
  • Social Discmanship – They Shall Have Music – by John M. Conly
  • Record Reviews

    • 1957-07 The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents July 1957

    1957/07 — Contents as follows:

  • Cover features abstraction by Pablo Picasso – Reproduced from a stencil by courtesy of the Fogg Art Museum
  • Atlantic Reports: Washington – Chile – United Europe
  • Richard Ely Danielson, 1885-1957
  • A Donkey in a World of Horses by Ved Mehta
  • Water: How Fast Can We Waste It? by John Robbins
  • Picasso Speaking by Carlton Lake
  • The Pulitzer Prizes by Arthur Mizener – Some mutterings throughout the Award’s history
  • The Space Child’s Mother Goose by Frederick Winsor with verses illustrated by Marian Perry
  • Home of the Redsides by Clark C. Van Fleet
  • The Pine Tree – An Atlantic First – by John A. Keenan
  • O Darkly in the Summer’s Eye — A Poem by Joan LaBombard
  • The Railroads Punish the Passenger by John L. Hess
  • Farewell to the North Woods Guide by J. Donald Adams
  • The Last Voyage – An Atlantic First by Tim Filer

    • Books and Men:

  • Dry Light and Hard Expressions by Alfred Kazin
  • Coke of Norfolk by Erwin N. Griswold
  • Looking Out to Sea — A Poem by Samuel French Morse

    • Atlantic Bookshelf:

  • The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks
  • Books the Editors Like

  • Reader’s Choice by Charles J. Rolo

    • Accents on Living:

  • Charles W. Morton – Elizabeth Parsons – R.P. Lister – George Stevens – Loyd Rosenfield – Phyllis McGinley
  • Record Reviews by John M. Conly

    • Pleasures and Places:

  • The Unwayward Greyhound by Patrick Kinross

    • 1957-08 The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents August 1957

    1957/08 — Contents as follows:

  • Cover features painting by Stanley Metlzoff
  • Atlantic Reports: Jordan – Washington – Moscow
  • Fall-Out Fever by Ernest C. Pollard – The author pressing for more informative policy out of Washington in response to fears of radioactivity and potential fall-out from the H-Bomb
  • Courtship in Grenada by Gerald Brenan
  • The Wonder Horse — A Story — by George Byram

    • The Young Poets:

  • A Day in Early Winter by Lila Ray
  • Song by Jan Burroway
  • Dream of the Pastoral Past by Randolph Stow
  • Weekend by Whitney Balliett
  • Penelope by Robert Bagg

    • In Search of Sight by Ved Mehta

  • What’s Wrong with the American Woman? by Don Cortes

  • The Tomahawk — A Story — by William Brandon
  • Old Jubal — A Poem by Herbert Merrill
  • Foreign Trade Is a Two-way Street by Herbert V. Prochnow
  • The Landlocked Sailor by Farley Mowat

    • Books and Men:

  • Mushrooms, Food of the Gods by Robert Graves – 5 pages of solid text

    • Atlantic Bookshelf:

  • The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks

  • Reader’s Choice by Phoebe Adams

    • Accents on Living:

  • Charles W. Morton – Dorothy Otis Wyre – R.G.G. Price – Crary Moore – Ruth Holley Heatherley
  • Record Reviews by John M. Conly

    • Pleasures and Places:

  • Venetian Hotel by Charles J. Rolo

    • 1957-09 The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents September 1957

    1957/09 — Contents as follows:

  • Cover features painting Existentionalists by Ben Shahn, reproduced courtesy of Mr. Nathan Stritzler
  • Atlantic Reports: Pakistan – Washington – Turkey
  • Is the Death Penalty Necessary? by Giles Playfair
  • Nonconformity by Ben Shahn
  • The Real Billy Graham by David H.C. Read
  • Summer Remembered — A Poem by Isabella Gardner
  • The Liberation Celebration Machine — A Story by Lawrence Durrell
  • Konrad Adenauer — An Atlantic Portrait by Ternece Prittie
  • The Growing Power of Admen by Vance Packard – The author of The Hidden Persuaders looks at motivational research in advertising
  • Andrew MacAfee, 1942-1957 — A Story by Crary Moore
  • Where Moth and Rust by Gertude Friedberg

    • Books and Men:

  • First Meetings with W.B. Yeats by Sir Max Beerbohm
  • Illusion — A Poem by P. Tremayne
  • Acorns in His Pocket by Donald Culross Peattie

    • Atlantic Bookshelf:

  • The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks

  • Reader’s Choice by Phoebe Adams

    • Accent on Living:

  • Charles W. Morton – Eleanor Early – Ferris Greenslet – Peg Bracken – William Jay Smith
  • Record Reviews by John M. Conly

    • Pleasures and Places:

  • Persian Paradox by Harvena Richter

    • 1957-02 The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents February 1957

    1957/02 — Contents as follows:

  • Cover design by Russell Carpenter
  • Atlantic Reports: Israel – Washington – Cyprus
  • What Russian Students Think by Merle Fainsod
  • Are Living Costs Out of Control? By John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Young Man with a Spear — A Story by Joseph Whitehill
  • How Good Is Polio Vaccine? by David D. Ruthstein, M.D.

    • The Young Poets:

  • Recovery by Ann Thomas
  • Night Speech by Robert Hutchinson
  • Child on a Pullman by Robert Krieger
  • The Hawk in the Storm by Ted Hughes
  • Boy in Church by Robert Hutchinson
  • Diver by Conrad Hilberry

  • The Cloud of Mistrust – The Plight of the American Indians — by Edith Mirrielees
  • A Plea to Boys and Girls – A Poem by Robert Graves
  • Schussing a Few Decades by Newton F. Tolman
  • The Day We Lost Tilo – An Atlantic First — by Frances Johnson
  • Submerged Artists by Walter Pach

    • Atlantic Bookshelf:

  • The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks
  • Reader’s Choice by Charles J. Rolo

    • Accent on Living:

  • Charles W. Morton – John G. Knecht – R.P. Lister – Gordon Cotler
  • Record Reviews by John M. Conly

    • Pleasures and Places:

  • Rent a House — On the Continent? by Joseph Wechsberg
  • In England? by Louis McIntosh

    • 1957-03 The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents March 1957

    1957/03 — Contents as follows:

  • Cover design by Russell Carpenter
  • Atlantic Reports: London – Washington – Japan
  • A Canadian Looks Us Over by James H. Gray
  • The Artists as a Young Man — Letters of James Joyce — Edited by Stuart Gilbert
  • Sassenach — A Story by Brian Moore
  • The Future of American Opera by Lincoln Kirstein
  • Remembered Words by Harvey H. Bundy
  • The Age of Happy Problems by Herbert Gold
  • Not by Drugs Alone — The Facts of Medicine by David D. Rutstein, M.D.
  • My Mother’s Hands — A Story by Robert Fontaine
  • To Judith — Poem by John Ciardi

    • Books and Men:

  • FDR: A Political Portrait by Gerald W. Johnson
  • To Emily Dickinson — A Poem by John Moffitt

    • Atlantic Bookshelf:

  • The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks

  • Books the Editors Like
  • Reader’s Choice by Charles J. Rolo

    • Accents on Living:

  • Charles W. Morton – Michael Jackson – M. Philip Stern – Alex Atkinson
  • Record Reviews by John M. Conly

    • Pleasures and Places:

  • South of Naples by Louis McIntosh

    • The New Germany

  • Essays, Stories and Verse by German Writers – Huge 91 Page Supplement Section! Includes articles by Konrad Adenauer and Heinrich Boll and poetry by Bertolt Brecht (What Did the Soldier’s Wife Receive?)

    • 1889-11 The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents November 1889

    1889/11 — Contents as follows:

  • Character of Democracy in the United States by Woodrow Wilson
  • The Begum’s Daughter — Chapters 22-24 — by Edwin Lassetter Bynner
  • Anteros by Edith M. Thomas
  • The French in Canada by Eben Greenough Scott
  • The First Mayor by Octave Thanet
  • Some Romances of the Revolution by Edward F. Hayward
  • Allston and His Unfinished Picture – Passages from the Journals of R.H. Dana — by Charles Francis Adams
  • The Nieces of Mazarin — Part 1 by Hope Notnor
  • The Tragic Muse – Chapters 31-33 – by Henry James
  • Materials for Landscape Art in America by Charles H. Moore
  • A Problem by Christopher P. Cranch
  • Marie Bashkirtseff by Sophia Kirk
  • Roosevelt’s The Winning of the West – Review of 2-volume The Winning of the West by Theodore Roosevelt – Review is appx. 6-1/2 pages
  • Outdoors and Indoors
  • Franklin, Washington, Lincoln (Book Reviews)
  • The Contributor’s Club
  • Books of the Month

    • 1889-12 The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents December 1889

    1889/12 — Contents as follows:

  • The Old Bunch of Grapes Tavern by Edwin Lassetter Bynner
  • The Tragic Muse – Chapters 34-37 – by Henry James
  • December Out-of-Doors by Bradford Torrey
  • Euryalus by Edith Wharton – 2 stanza poem
  • The Nieces of Mazarin – Part 2 by Hope Notnor
  • Architecture in the West by Henry Van Brunt
  • The Begum’s Daughter — Chapters 25-26 — by Edwin Lassetter Bynner
  • Delphi – The Locality at Its Legends by William Cranston Lawton
  • Border Warfare of the Revolution by John Fiske
  • School Vacations by N.S. Shaler
  • Latin and Saxon America by Albert G. Browne
  • Two Lyrics by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • The Later Years of William Lloyd Garrison
  • The Century Dictionary
  • The Contributor’s Club
  • Books of the Month

    • 1924-05 The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents May 1924

    1924/05 — Contents as follows:

  • Cornelia and Dionysus – A Contemporary Conversation – by Stuart P. Sherman
  • The Commonwealth of the Atlantic by Ramsay Traquair
  • From a Cook’s Point of View – A Personal Experience – by Ann Alderton
  • The Mystery and Power of Light by Ellwood Hendrick
  • A Pianoforte Recital – A Poem by Fredoon Kabraji
  • The Fog – A Story by Arthur Mason
  • A Boy’s Ideas on Religion by A Schoolboy
  • The Preacher’s Handicap by Herbert W. Horwill
  • The Extraneous Adventures of a Whaler by Charles Boardman Hawes
  • The Bride of a God — A Story by L. Adams Beck
  • Silence — A Poem by Marie Blake
  • Tad Lincoln’s Father – A Playmate’s Recollections by Julia Taft Bayne
  • Marriage by Nathalie S. Colby
  • War-Time Relations of America and Great Britain – Aspects of Wilsonian Democracy, I — by Charles Seymour

    • The New World:

  • The Frightened Farmer by Bruce Bliven
  • After Five Years by H.H. Powers

  • British Labor and French Elections – Can the Entente Be Restored? – by Sisley Huddleston
  • The Pope and the Caliph – A Study in Comparative Diplomacy – by N.V. Tcharykow
  • The Contributor’s Club

  • The Contributor’s Column
  • The Atlantic’s Bookshelf
  • Rotogravure Style Section – 12 pages packed with photos

    • 1889-07 The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents July 1889

    1889/07 — Contents as follows:

  • Assum Igitur by Harriet Waters Preston
  • Going to Shrewsbury by Sarah Orne Jewett
  • The Problem of Discipline in Higher Education by N.S. Shaler
  • The Old Masters in New York by William Howe Downes
  • The Tragic Muse – Chapters 17-19 – by Henry James
  • The Speaker’s Power by Henry Loomis Nelson
  • John Evelyn’s Youth by Mary Davies Steele
  • Books That Have Hindered Me by Agnes Repplier
  • The Begum’s Daughter – Chapters 9-11 — by Edwin Lassetter Bynner
  • A Mountain-Side Ramble by Bradford Torrey
  • Trotting Races by H.C. Merwin
  • Recent American Fiction
  • Gouverneur Morris
  • The Contributor’s Club
  • Books of the Month

    • 1889-08 The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents August 1889

    1889/08 — Contents as follows:

  • How I Consulted the Oracle of the Goldfishes by James Russell Lowell
  • The Background of Roman History by H.W.P. and L.D.
  • From Generation to Generation by Lillie B. Chace Wyman
  • The Begum’s Daughter — Chapters 12-15 — by Edwin Lassetter Bynner
  • A Poet of French Canada by Paul T. Lafleur
  • Law and Political Fact in the United States by Irving Berdine Richman
  • The French Alliance and the Conway Cabal by John Fiske
  • The German Boy at Leisure by George Moritz Wahl
  • The Tragic Muse – Chapters 20-23 – by Henry James
  • The “Black-Capped” Baltimore by Olive Thorne Miller
  • Emerson’s Concord Life
  • Madame De Stael
  • Letters of Thomas Carlyle
  • The Contributor’s Club
  • Books of the Month

    • 1889-10 The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents October 1889

    1889/10 — Contents as follows:

  • The Begum’s Daughter — Chapters 19-21 — by Edwin Lassetter Bynner
  • A Non-Combatant’s War Reminiscences by J.R. Kendrick
  • The Monmouth and Newport Campaigns by John Fiske
  • Prismatics by Sophia Kirk
  • The Closing Scenes of the Iliad by William Cranston Lawton
  • In the Harara by Clinton Scollard
  • Dave’s Neckliss by Charles W. Chesnutt
  • The Government and Its Creditors by Henry Loomis Nelson
  • Sunset by mary Colborne-Veel
  • Ladies and Learning by L.D. Morgan
  • Fiction in the Pulpit by Agnes Repplier
  • The Plaint of the Rose by John B. Tabb
  • The Tragic Muse – Chapters 28-30 – by Henry James
  • Theodore Dwight Woolsey by Joseph Henry Thayer
  • The Butterflies of the Eastern United States
  • The Beginnings of New England
  • The Contributor’s Club
  • Books of the Month

    • 1889-09 The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents September 1889

    1889/09 — Contents as follows:

  • The Isthmus Canal and American Control by Stuart F. Weld
  • The Gold Heart by Harry P. Robinson
  • Phryne’s Test by Margaret J. Preston
  • James Wilson by Frank Gaylor Cook
  • The Begum’s Daughter — Chapters 16-18 — by Edwin Lassetter Bynner
  • La Nouvelle France by Eben Greenough Scott
  • The White Rose Road by Sarah Orne Jewett
  • The Secret by W.R. Thayer
  • Americans at the First Bastille Celebration by J.G. Alger
  • The Day of Rest by Charles Worcester Clark
  • Voodooism in Tennessee by S.M.P.
  • Flowers and Folks by Bradford Torrey
  • It Seems but Yesterday by Julie M. Lippmann
  • The Tragic Muse – Chapters 24-27 – by Henry James
  • The Black Madonna of Loreto by Katharine Hilliard
  • Abbott’s Greece
  • Mr. Winter on Dramatic Criticism
  • Villari’s Savonarola
  • The Contributor’s Club
  • Books of the Month

    • 1889-05 The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents May 1889

    1889/05 — Contents as follows:

  • The Begum’s Daughter — Chapters 1-4 — by Edwin Lassetter Bynner
  • Temperance Legislation – Uses and Limits by Charles Worcester Clark
  • Omar Khayyam by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • Brandywine, Germantown, and Saratoga by John Fiske
  • A Paris Exposition in Dishabille by William Henry Bishop
  • The Tragic Muse – Chapters 11-13 – by Henry James
  • La Merveilleuse Americaine by Albert Roland Haven
  • The Philosophy and Poetry of Tears by J.T.L. Preston
  • At Sesenheim by Bliss Perry
  • Palinode by a Poet brought to Book
  • The Bell of Saint Basil’s by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

  • Reflections After a Wandering Life in Australasia — Part 1 of 2 — by Joseiah Royce
  • The Lawyer in National Politics by Frank Gaylord Cook
  • Trotting Horses by H.C. Merwin
  • Mr. Motley’s Correspondence

  • A Painter’s Pen and Brush
  • The Contributor’s Club
  • Books of the Month

    • 1889-06 The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents June 1889

    1889/06 — Contents as follows:

  • The Highest Structure in the World by William A. Eddy – The Eiffel Tower
  • Bonny Hugh of Ironbrook by Edith Brower

  • A World of Roses by Edith M. Thomas

  • Rawdon Brown and the Gravestone of ‘Banished Norfolk’ by Charles Eliot Norton
  • The German Gymnasium in its Working Order by George Moritz Wahl
  • The Thousand and One Nights by C.H. Toy
  • The Tragic Muse – Chapters 13-16 – by Henry James
  • The War-Cry of Clan Grant by Walter Mitchell
  • The State, The Church, and the School by Horace E. Scudder
  • Brevet Martyrs by E.T. Johnson
  • A City of Refuge by William Burnet Wright
  • Reflections After a Wandering Life in Australasia — Part 2 of 2 — by Josiah Royce
  • The Begum’s Daughter — Chapters 5-8 — by Edwin Lassetter Bynner
  • Hector Berlioz
  • Bishop Ken
  • The Contributor’s Club
  • Books of the Month

    • 1863-04 The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents April 1863

    1863/04 — Contents as follows:

  • On the Vicissitudes of Keat’s Fame by Joseph Severn
  • A Spasm of Sense by Gail Hamilton
  • Betrothal by Proxy
  • My Ship by A. West
  • Resignation by The Author of ‘Recreations of a Country Parson’
  • The Flag by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe
  • Wet-Weather Work by Donald G. Mitchell
  • Golden Wedding by M.D. Conway
  • The Silurian Beach by Professor Louis Agassiz
  • Coralie by F. G. Tuckerman
  • Important Article: Sojourner Truth, The Libyan Sibyl by Harriet Beecher Stowe – According to the Sojourner Truth website, Stowe, who had published the bestselling Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852 was visited by Truth the following year. “Stowe apparently saw Truth as a primitive original, fitting the ex-slave into her romanticized view of blacks in general.” After describing Truth to sculptor William Wetmore Story, Story used Stowe’s vision of Truth as the basis for his statue, “The Libyan Sibyl.” This article by Stowe describes her 1853 meeting with Truth and how the sculpture came to be. The newspapers picked up on it and began referring to Truth as the “Sibyl” afterwards.

    Because of this article this issue is one of about a dozen issues of The Atlantic Monthly singled out as notable by Dr. Steven Lomazow in his indispensible volume, American Periodicals: A Collector’s Manual and Reference Guide.

  • American Horticulture
  • The East and the West by Theodore Winthrop
  • Personal Reminiscences of the late Henry Thomas Buckle by Charles Hale
  • Cavalry Song by E. J. Cutler
  • No Failure for the North by Francis Wayland, Jr.
  • Reviews and Literary Notices
  • Recent American Publications

    • 1889-01 The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents January 1889

    1889/01 — Contents as follows:

  • Frontispiece: A Stell Portrait of John Greenleaf Whittier
  • The Tragic Muse – Chapters 1-3 – by Henry James
  • Washington’s Great Campaign of 1776 by John Fiske
  • Alec Yeaton’s Son by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • Passe Rose – Chapters 13-16 – by Arthur Sherburne Hardy
  • A Difficult Problem in Politics by Frank Gaylord Cook
  • Palm Sunday in Puebla de Los Angeles by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • Studies in Factory Life: The American and the Mill by Lillie B. Chace Wyman
  • The Athletic Problem in Education by N.S. Shaler
  • The Cricket by James B. Kenyon
  • Mr. Tommy Dove by Margaret Deland
  • The Solitaire by Olive Thorne Miller
  • Parleying by Louise Chandler Moulton
  • Some Characteristics of Von Moltke by Philip Dymond
  • Recent American History
  • The Depths of the Ocean
  • Matthew Fontaine Maury
  • The Contributor’s Club
  • Books of the Month

    • 1889-02 The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents February 1889

    1889/02 — Contents as follows:

  • A Winter Courtship by Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Butterflies in Disguise by Samuel H. Scudder

  • Passe Rose – Chapters 17-19 – by Arthur Sherburne Hardy
  • Eurylochus Transformed by Wendell P. Stafford
  • A Plea for Humor by Agnes Repplier
  • The Tragic Muse – Chapters 4-6 – by Henry James
  • Under Which King? by Harriet Waters Preston
  • The Spirit of American Politics as Shown in the Late Election by Charles Worcester Clark
  • The Gift of Fernseed by Harry Perry Robinson
  • Address to the Assembly at the Opening of the Players’ Club in New York by T.W. Parsons
  • The New Talking-Machines by Philips G. Hubert, Jr. – About Thomas Edison and early phonographs
  • Brianda de Bardaxi by Henry C. Lea

  • Letters of Felix Mendelssohn
  • Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries
  • Illinois Life in Fiction
  • The Contributor’s Club
  • Books of the Month

    • 1889-03 The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents March 1889

    1889/03 — Contents as follows:

  • The Tragic Muse – Chapters 6-8 – by Henry James
  • Simplicity by Charles Dudley Warner
  • The Keiths by Hope Notnor
  • Passe Rose – Chapters 20-22 – by Arthur Sherburne Hardy
  • The Two Mothers by E. Wilson
  • The Isthmus Canal and Our Government by Stuart F. Weld
  • Hannah Calline’s Jim — Part 1 of 2 — by Elizabeth W. Bellamy
  • Some Colonial Lawyers and Their Work by Frank Gaylord Cook
  • Personal Reminiscences of William H. Seward by Samuel J. Barrows and Isabel C. Barrows
  • The Christmas of 1888 – A Poem by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Ticonderoga, Bennington and Oriskany by John Fiske

  • A Bird’s Eye View of the United States
  • The Contributor’s Club
  • Books of the Month

    • 1889-04 The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents April 1889

    1889/04 — Contents as follows:

  • The People in Government by H.C. Merwin
  • Passe Rose – Chapters 23-26 — by Arthur Sherburne Hardy
  • Death in April by Bliss Carman
  • Why Our Science Students Go to Germany by Samuel Sheldon
  • A Dissolving View of Carrick Meagher by George H. Jessup
  • A French Bishop of the Fifteenth Century by Francis C. Lowell
  • Hannah Callin’s Jim — Part 2 of 2 — by Elizabeth W. Bellamy
  • Cooperation by Edith M. Thomas
  • From Venice to Assos by William Cranston Lawton
  • The Tragic Muse – Chapters 8-10 – by Henry James
  • Before the Assassination by Harriet Waters Preston
  • In Eclipse by T.W. Parsons
  • King’s Cup and Cake by Sophie May
  • An Outline Portrait by Louise Imogen Guiney
  • To James Russell Lowell – At the Dinner given in his honor at the Tavern Club, on his Seventieth Birthday, February 22, 1889, by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Renan’s Dramas
  • Young Sir Henry Vane
  • The Contributor’s Club
  • Books of the Month

    • 1917-11 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    1917/11 — Contents as follows:

  • Patriotism and Food by Vernon Kellogg
  • The Man who Lost Himself – An Enforced Experiment in Labor by Cecil Fairfield Lavell
  • Mr. Fannet and the Afterglow – A Story by Margaret Lynn
  • The St. Gaudens Monument at Rock Creek Cemetery – Two Sonnets by Cecil Spring Rice
  • Professor’s Progress – Part 3 of A Novel of Contemporaneous Adventure by Anonymous
  • The Meaning of Mr. Well’s New Religion by Bernard Iddings Bell
  • Every Man’s Natural Desire to be Somebody Else by S.M. Crothers
  • Mr. Smiley — A Story by Arthur Russell Taylor
  • Preserving the Past by Frances Lester Warner
  • The German State of Mind by Anonymous
  • The Irish Convention–and After by Mrs. John Richard Green
  • To the Dead — A Poem by Arthur Symons
  • The I.W.W. – A Different View by Carleton H. Parker

    The Great War:
    The Fallacy of a German Peace:

  • How Cheaply Germany has Fought the War by Andre Cheradame
  • How much Germany has Won in the War by Andre Cheradame
  • The Necessity for a Decision by Andre Cheradame

    • The Pope’s Letter and the Future of the Churches by Charles Johnston

  • Kerensky and the Revolution by E.H. Wilcox
  • High Adventure – Part 3 by James Norman Hall
  • The Contributors’ Club
  • The Contributor’s Column

    • 1903-05 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    1903/05 — Contents as follows:

  • Emerson as a Religious Influence by George A. Gordon
  • The Evolution of the Trained Nurse by Mary Moss
  • A May Morning – A Poem by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • My Own Story – Part 5 by J.T. Trowbridge
  • A Sacrifice – A Story by Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • The Book and the Place by Martha Baker Dunn
  • Revealment – A Poem by Madison Cawein
  • His Daughter First — Chapters 18-23 of a Novel by Arthur Sherburne Hardy
  • The Mulatto Factor in the Race Problem by Alfred Holt Stone
  • The Bee Sermons — A Story by Arthur E. McFarlane
  • The St. Louis Congress of Arts and Sciences by Hugo Munsterberg
  • Under the Trees — A Poem by Anna Hempstead Branch
  • Lady Rose’s Daughter: The Novels of Mr. Norris by Harriet Waters Preston
  • The Two Apples — A Story by James Edmund Dunning
  • An Utopia Attributed by Milton by F.G.
  • Books New and Old: “For the Young” by H.W. Boynton
  • The Contributors’ Club