People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1893 — Mark Twain's Latest. [ARTICLE]

Mark Twain's Latest.

A magazine is usthlily satisfied with one strong feature sos the month. The Cosmopolitan, however. presents foi* November no less than five very uniisihfi ones. I William Pean Howells gives the I firet of the letters of the traveler, who has been visiting this country, from Altftirifi. We have read Mr. Howells’ iiUpreSsion of the Altrurian; but in this first I letter we Bate the AltruHan's impressions of NeW York, with some comme'nts upon ottr gov ernment Shd society, calculated to awaken the most conservative i •minds. The second feature of I The Cosmopolitan is the portion of the given up to color work, no less thcro ten superb color illustrations be’ifJg presented for the first time in magazine history, accompanying an article by Mrs. Roger A. Pryor on ’‘Changes in Woman's Costumes.” The third feature is “American Notes,” by Walter Besant, who was recently in America and is doing the United States for The Cosmopolitan a la Dickens. The fourth feature is an article by General Badeau on “The Forms of Invitation Used by the English Nobility.” The article is illustrated by the facsimile of cards to the Queen’s drawing room, to dinner at the Princess of Wales, and to many leading houses of England. Finally, we have a new and very curious story by Mark Twain, called “The Esquimau Maiden’s Romance.” It is in his happiest vein and is illustrated by Dan Beard. The November number presents the work of many artists, among whom are C. S. Reinhart, Otto Guillonnet, J. H, Harper, G. Hudson. Franz von Lenback, George Wharton Edwards, F. Schuyler Matthew’s, Dan Beard, W, L. Sontag, Jr.; F. G. Atw’ood, C. Hirschberg, J. Habert-Dys, August Franzen, Louis J. Read, J. N. Hutchins and Hamilton Gibson.