December 1857

Articles

• Where Will It End?

  In its second issue, The Atlantic urged Northerners to take a stand against slavery.

  Edmund Quincy

• Solitude and Society

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The Indian Revolt

  “The anticipated mutiny has now come, its first symptoms were treated with utter want of judgment, and its power is shaking the whole fabric of the English rule in India.”

  Charles Creighton Hazewell

• Florentine Mosaics (Part II)

  The final installment in a series about tradition and art in the Tuscan capital

• The Battle of Lepanto

• The Wind and Stream

• Turkey Tracks

• Robin Hood

• The Ghost Redivivus

• The Golden Mile-Stone

• The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table: Every Man His Own Boswell

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Thomas Carlyle

• The Button-Rose

• Our Birds, and Their Ways

• Skipper Ireson's Ride

• Akin by Marriage

• My Portrait Gallery

• Homœopathic Domestic Physician

• La Norwège

• Les Anglais Et l'Inde

• Histoire De La Révolution Française

• Histoire De France Au Xvi. Siècle

• La Liberté

• Mémoires De M. Joseph Prudhomme

• Kraft Und Stoff/Materie Und Geist

• Die Deutsche Komische Und Humoristische Dichtung Seit Beginn Des 16. Jahrhunderts Bis Auf Unsere Zeit

• Thüringer Naturen, Charakter-Und Sittenbilder in Erzählungen/Die Heiterethei Und Ihr Widerspiel

• May Carols

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