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Beautifully printed and illustrated and handsomely bound, the ninth volume

of Atalanta, from October, 1895, to September, 1896, makes an admirable presentation volume. It is, further, a mis- cellany of "promiscuous" articles and fiction, all of which have un- doubtedly an elevating and refining tendency. "The Girl at the Dower House" is an excellent, if not specially eventful, story, and among the papers which are given in a " series " form, "The Homes and Haunts of the Poets" and "The Amenities of Domestic Life," the latter by Evelyn Sharp, are deserving of very high com- mendation.