Periodical articles

• "Peace and War: A Dialogue" in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 76 (1854) (external scan)
• "Peace and Patriotism: A Letter to Irenæus" in in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 77 (1855) (external scan)
• "The New Peace Party: A Dialogue" in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 79 (1856) (external scan)
• "The Art of Travel" in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 79 (1856) (external scan)
• "From the Fatherland" in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 89 (1861) (external scan)
• "Gustave Doré" in Once a Week, Series 1, 11 (1864)
• "Fact or Fancy?" in Once a Week, Series 2, 2 (1866) (external scan)
• "Ingres; In Memoriam" in Once a Week, Series 2, 3 (1867) (external scan)
• "Eccentric Wild Boars" in Once a Week, Series 2, 3 (1867) (external scan)

Travels

• "Jottings in Jersey" in Once a Week, Series 1, 3 (1860)
• "From the Field of Jena" in Once a Week, Series 1, 6 (1862)
• "Castles of the Taunus" in Once a Week, Series 1, 7 (1862)
• "A Peep into the Palatinate" in Once a Week, Series 1, 8 (1863)
• "Wetzlar on the Lahn" in Once a Week, Series 1, 8 (1863)
• "Up the Moselle" in Once a Week, Series 1, 8-9 (1863)
• "Aschaffenburg on the Main" in Once a Week, Series 1, 9 (1863)
• "The Lake and Abbey of Laach" in Once a Week, Series 1, 9 (1863)
• "Seligenstadt-on-the-Main" in Once a Week, Series 1, 9 (1863)
• "The Great Loop of the Main" in Once a Week, Series 1, 9 (1863)
• "Days in the Black Forest" in Once a Week, Series 1, 10-11 (1864)
• "The Odenwald and Lindenfels" in Once a Week, Series 1, 11 (1864)
• "Weibertreu and Weinsberg" in Once a Week, Series 1, 11 (1864)
• "Solothurn" in Once a Week, Series 1, 12 (1865) (external scan)
• "The Ahrthal and Mayen" in Once a Week, Series 1, 12 (1865) (external scan)
• "Freiburg in Breisgau" in Once a Week, Series 1, 12 (1865) (external scan)
• "Alsacian Sketches" in Once a Week, Series 2, 1 (1866) (external scan)
• "Ueberlingen" in Once a Week, Series 2, 1 (1866) (external scan)
• "May Days in Appenzell" in Once a Week, Series 2, 3 (1867) (external scan)
• "Lakes of Lorraine" in Once a Week, Series 2, 3 (1867) (external scan)
• "An Early Stroll to Zermatt" in Fraser's Magazine, N.S., 2 (1870) (external scan)

Poetry

• "Doubts and Hopes" in Once a Week, Series 1, 9 (1863)
• "The Fräulein's Hair: An Episode of the Liberation War" in Once a Week, Series 1, 9 (1863)
• "Heinrich Frauenlob" in Once a Week, Series 1, 9 (1863)
• "Twelve Months" in Once a Week, Series 1, 10 (1864)
• "The Iron Safe" in Once a Week, Series 2, 3 (1867) (external scan)
• Poems, with Margaret Swayne (1868)

as translator

• The Prometheus Chained (1846) from Aeschylus (external scan)
• Specimens from Schiller and Uhland (1848) (external scan)
• "Wein-Lied (A Wine Song)" in Once a Week, Series 1, 7 (1862), translated from "Lied vom Wein" by Emanuel Geibel
• "Heimkehr (The Return)" in Once a Week, Series 1, 7 (1862), translated from "Heimkehr" by Emanuel Geibel
• "Nach Zehn Jahren (After Ten Years)" in Once a Week, Series 1, 8 (1863), translated from "Nach zehn Jahren" (1840) by Emanuel Geibel
• Herodotus (1870) (transcription project) (external scan)