December 1859
In This Issue
Explore the December 1859 print edition below. Or to discover more writing from the pages of The Atlantic, browse the full archive.
Articles
The Aurora Borealis
“What is the origin of these remarkable phenomena? The ancients asked the question, and the moderns reply by repeating it.”
The Experience of Samuel Absalom, Filibuster
The Minister's Wooing
The Northern Lights and the Stars
Thomas Paine in England and in France
Elkanah Brewster's Temptation
Magdalena
“Strange Countries for to See.”
Beauty at Billiards
Italy, 1859
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table: What He Said, What He Heard, and What He Saw
The Oxford Museum
Forty-Four Years of the Life of a Hunter/Ten Years of Preacher-Life
A First Lesson in Natural History
Poems
Sword and Gown
Recent American Publications











