People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1895 — Late Literary Note. [ARTICLE]

Late Literary Note.

Two very important facts in connection with the new era of magazines are illustrated in the December Cosmopolitan. Its fiction is by Stevenson, the last story written before his death, “Ouida,” Sarah Grand,Zangwill, and the beginning of James Lane Allen's new Kentucky realistic story, “Butterflies.” Probably no stronger array of fiction has ever been presented in any magazine— money could not buy better. Nor has any other magazine ever had a larger number of really distinguished artists engaged upon the illustration of a single number. The reader might be puzzled to know such a number can be made at the price of ten cents. But the magazine itself affords the solution; it contains 139 pages of advertising, which, as the publishers announce, is from $4,000 to SB,OOO more net cash advertising than was ever before printed in any magazine, of any kind, and in any country. It breaks the world’s record in the publishing business. Moreover, the cost of the artists and authors who appear in this number is divided amongst 400,000 copies, bringing the cost per copy proportionately ' low. The Cosmopolitan thinks that the ten cent magazine, bringing, as it does, the best in art atd literature into all classes, is an educational movement second in importance only to that of the public schools.