Theodore S. Fay: Norman Leslie --
Joseph Rodman Drake: The culprit Fay, and other poems ; Fitz-Greene Halleck: Alnwick Castle, with other poems --
James K. Paulding: slavery in the United States ; William Drayton: the south vindicated from the treason and fanaticism of the northern abolitionists --
Charles Dickens: The old curiosity shop, and other tales and Master Humphrey's clock --
Lambert A. Wilmer: the quacks of Helicon: a satire --
Exordium to critical notices --
Nathaniel Hawthorne: twice-told tales --
Rufus W. Griswold: the poets and poetry of America --
Prospectus of The stylus --
James Fenimore Cooper: Wyandotté --
"The little Longfellow war" --
Philosophy of composition --
Excerpts from "The literati of New York City" --
James Russell Lowell: a fable for the critics --