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133 pages plus 22 advertisement pages.  

Some outstanding content in this issue includes:  

Amelie Rives (born a month after the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, she was the goddaughter of Robert E. Lee) opens this issue (anonymously) with her early long story, here first printed, "A Brother to Dragons." It's still in print today.  

Union Civil War hero Thomas Wentworth Higginson on the just published "Memoirs" of Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant, "the foremost soldier of his time." This is an informed essay: "Grant began [his career] breaking in a troublesome horse, and ended it [breaking] the Southern Confederacy."
  

John Codman Ropes, notable attorney and Civil War historian on the career of Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart. Some detail here on his 1863 blunders in Maryland and on the weeks leading to the Battle of Gettysburg. 

Architect and Civil War naval veteran Henry Van Brunt's "On the Present Condition and Prospects of Architecture." 

New verse from Louise Imogen Guiney, "Salutation." 

John Winsor's essay on the history of the study of "Americana."  

G.E. Woodbury on the passing of author, essayist, critic, and editor Richard Grant White: "A Shakespearean Scholar." This is an essay of some interest. Woodberry also pens an essay in this issue headed "[Lord] Tennyson: The Conservative."  

Henry James's serial novel, The Princess Casamassima (Book Third, Chapters 22-24). 

John Fiske's "The United States after the Revolutionary War." 

Oliver Wendell Holmes introduces two of his own new "occasional" poems

A few author identifications above are drawn from the Atlantic Monthly Index, 1857-1888.