October 1877

Articles

• Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion

  "We bought our tickets, and then went wandering around, here and there, in the solid comfort of being free and idle, and of putting distance between ourselves and the mails and telegraphs"

  Mark Twain

• Old-Fashioned Ghost Stories

  “We may go hand in hand with our loved ones to the very brink of the dark river, but there we must leave them; and oh, how we struggle and agonize, and passionately pray — alas, how fruitlessly! — for but one glimpse beyond the veil.”

  H. B. K.

• The Queen of Sheba

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• The Procession of Flowers in Colorado

  H. H.

• In Memoriam: John Lothrop Motley

  William Wetmore Story

• A Night in St. Peter's

  T. Adolphus Trollope

• Crude and Curious Inventions at the Centennial Exhibition

  Edward H. Knight

• Ten Years in Early English

  Arthur Gilman

• A Willow-Tree

  Edgar Fawcett

• A Counterfeit Presentment: Comedy. In Three Parts. Part Third

  William Dean Howells

• Crickets

  John Weiss

• Echoes From an Old Parsonage

  Edward Ashley Walker

• My Love

  Anna M. Brockway

• Song

  George Parsons Lathrop

• The Contributors' Club

• Recent Literature

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