10 FEBRUARY 1894, Page 26

With the exception of two serial stories from the pens

of Mar- garet Deland, and the writer who styles herself "Charles Egbert Craddock," the most notable of the contents of an excellent number of The Atlantic Monthly is a poem on that remarkable man and historian, Francis Parkman, by the veteran Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. It is rather old-fashioned in style, but is none the less enjoyable on that account. It is thus that Dr. Holmes sets forth Parkman's indomitable historical tramp through the wild country of the Red Man .—

" High o'er his head the soaring eagle screamed ; The wolf's lone howl rang nightly; through the vale

Tramped the lone tear; the panther's eyeballs gleamed; The bison's gallop thundered on the gale."