August 1862

Articles

• The New Gymnastics

  My object is to submit, for the consideration of the readers of the "Atlantic," a new system of physical training, adapted to both sexes, and to persons of all ages and degrees of strength.

  Dio Lewis

• Thoreau

  "The country knows not yet, or in the least part, how great a son it has lost."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• In War-Time

  A poem

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• Amy Wentworth

  A poem

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• Mr. Axtell: Part I

• My Daphne

• Concerning Disagreeable People

• The Sam Adams Regiments in the Town of Boston

  Richard Frothingham

• Life in the Open Air

  Theodore Winthrop

• To William Lowell Putnam: After Seeing Two Photographs of Him

• The Horrors of San Domingo

• My Lost Art

  M.D. Conway

• A Summer Day

• Ravenshoe

• Vanity Fair. Volumes I.--V

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