October 1860

Articles

• A Modern Cinderella: Or, The Little Old Shoe

  Louisa May Alcott

• The Election in November

  The Atlantic’s editor endorsed Abraham Lincoln for the presidency in the 1860 election, predicting that it would prove to be “a turning-point in our history.”

  James Russell Lowell

• Some of the Haunts of Burns

• Pasquin and Pasquinades

• The Summons

• Darwin and His Reviewers

  Asa Gray

• The Old Days and the New

• The Iceberg of Torbay

• Theodore Parker

• Icarus

• Walker

• The National Intelligencer and Its Editors

• Sonnet: Written After a Violent Thunder-Storm in the Country

• The Professor's Story

• History of Flemish Literature

• The Glaciers of the Alps

• Art: Mr. Jarves's Collection

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