The second edition only appeared in 1857, under the name "Revista Brasileira, Jornal de Ciências, Letras e Artes", and had a total of four volumes.

Afrânio Peixoto ignored Meneses's edition and considered only the volumes published by Batista de Oliveira as phase I.

It was during this phase that Revista Brasileira published the work The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis.

Veríssimo requested that contributions be sent to the Ouvidor Street [pt], the address where the writers who founded the Brazilian Academy of Letters used to gather.

Phase IV, directed by Antônio Batista Pereira, lasted from June 1934 to November 1935, publishing only 10 issues.

[1] A complete collection is housed in the Archive-Museum of Brazilian Literature at the Casa de Rui Barbosa Foundation [pt], which also organized and published an index of the first six phases.