book was published, in substantially its present form, in the Atlantic Monthly for April, 1913.

The most popular Monthly in the world.

Mr. Folsom, however, sent to the Western Monthly of Chicago a carefully prepared account of his expedition, which that magazine published in July, 1870, after cutting out some of the most interesting portions of the story, thus destroying in some measure the continuity of the narrative.

Atterley goes to the great monthly fairIts various exhibitions; difficultiesPreparations to leave the MoonCuriosities procured by AtterleyRegress to the Earth.

Wolsey was on familiar terms with a venerable carp; Clive owned a pet tortoise; Sir John Lubbock contrived to win the affections of a Syrian wasp; Charles Dudley Warner devoted an entire article in the Atlantic Monthly to the praises of his cat Calvin; but did you ever hear of a peacock as a household pet?

In the conduct of Harper's Monthly with its wide range of attractive material, he has done the world a service, high and fine.

The farmer who threshes his own corn and cuts his own firewood has very likely a piano in his family sitting-room, with the Atlantic Monthly on the table and Milton and Tennyson, Gibbon and Macaulay on his shelves, while his daughter, who has baked bread in the morning, is perhaps ready to paint on china in the afternoon.

Sports and tiatr have projected this monthly as a popular family magazine.