Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — The Cosmopolitan. [ARTICLE]

The Cosmopolitan.

The January Cosmopolitan is ric]) in illustration and varied in interest It opens with a description of the manner of making an illustrated magazine (meaning, of course, itself), this being the firut issue from its own printing office. The article will interest readers unacquamted with the mysteries of a printing office greatly, and it is illustrated by portraits of its leading contributors, the number of whom will be a surprise. Among the illustrated papers in this number are: “Four Famous Artists,” by Gerald Campbell; “Japan Revisited,” by Bir Edwin Arnold; "Beauties of the American Stage,” by Joseph P. Read and William 8. Walsh; "The Confessions of an Autograph Hunter,” by Charles Robinson; "The English Laureates,” by R. H. Stoddard; “The Muses of Manhattan,” by Broader Matthews; “Grant Under Fire,” by Theodore R. Davis; and “The Wheel of Time,” a serial novel, by Henry James. I 3 addition there are several poems and two complete stories (the latter by W. D. Howells and Louise V. Sheldon), as well as the usual departments. It is n strong number, beginning the new year with performance as well as promise.

A Paris cablegram says; “The principal structure of the French section at Chicago will be the National pavilion. It will be made of wood and piaster in imitation 01 stone. It will be a handsome type ot the decorative style of architecture so popular to-day. The interior will be very tastefully adorned with objects of considerable artistic value, which will be sent over from France for this purpose. The building will be surrounded with a little garden laid out a la Francaise. The decorations of- the varibus front sections in the different buildings will be of a most effective natute. v Great care is being taken by th« French Commission here to improve on what wa» done in this direction iu 1889.”