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Show The Atlantic. ' ' " The October Atlantic does not show ' any sign of the sere and yellow. Mark i Twain resumes bis. drolleries in the first of a series' of papers headed -"Pome .Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion," Mr, Aldrich carries forward for-ward bis novel, "The Queen of Shcba," and Mr. Howells completes his comedy, "A Counterfeit Present-meul.1' Present-meul.1' Other welt known- writers contribute to. the number. H. H., for example, has a paper on "The Procession of Flowers in Colorado," and T. A. Trollope, in "A Night in St. Peter's," gives not only his own experience in the cathedral after everybody . had gone Iq bed . and locked the outside door, but a good idea of the procession of popes. To read "Old Fashioned Ghost Stories" will do just as well for some people as to spend a night in a great cathedral. The poetry of the number is varied, tbe sculptor and poet, ty. . W, Story, writing of "John Lolhrop Motley," Edgar Faw celt of "A Willow -Tree," and -John Weiss of "Crickets." More solid articles are that on "Ten .Years in Early English," by Arthur Oilman, and "Crude and Curious Inventions," Inven-tions," by E. H. Knight. The Contributors Con-tributors in their Club have not yet exhausted the subject of ' Tourg-nefi," Tourg-nefi," and Judge Hilton is called up before the bench. A novelty lately introduced in the Atlantic is original music, and this time there is a song by G. P. Lathrop to music by Geo. L. Osgood. H. O. Houghton fc Co., Boston, publishers; 35 centa a number; num-ber; $4 a year. |