People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1895 — Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly. [ARTICLE]

Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly.

The Christmas number of Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly is already out, and will hardly be surpassed in richness and beauty of pictorial illustration, or in seasonable variety of literary contents, by anything that may follow during the holiday season. The opening article, upon “Heroines and Heroine Worship,” affords a vehicle for nearly a score of exquisite reproductions from the old and modern master-painters. A similar opportunity is found in the intensely poeiic story, by A. Cressy Morrison, of “The Man who Resembled Christ,” which in addition is illustrated with some original drawings of rare delicacy. In “The City of Dordrecht.” George C. Haite fairly revels in the picturesque, giving us eight of his loveliest aquarelles. The great literary feature of the number is Tolstoi’s latest story, “Master and Man,” specially translated from the Russian for Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly, and illustrated by Fogarty. A charming novelty is “A Daughter of the Samurai,” by Reiichi Yamagata, being an up-to-date Japanese love story written in English by a Japanese author. Amongst other contributions deserving special mention are “Heroines of Chivalry,” oy Mrs. Frank Leslie; “Literary Boston,” by Lilian Whiting; “The St. Nicholas Society,” by Wilf. P. Pond; “How the Wixes Joined the Four Hundred,” by A. Oakey Hall; and “A Legend of Jeanne d’ Arc,” —the latter being a poem by Francois Coppee.