People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1896 — Frank Leslic’s Popular Monthly for December. [ARTICLE]

Frank Leslic’s Popular Monthly for December.

Frank Leslie,s Popular Monthly is the first of the Christmas magazines to appear, and it is in every respect a beautiful number. Under the title “A Magic Island,” Beatriz B. de Luna writes entertainingly of the picturesque Catalinas of California; Cornell University described by Herbert Crombie Howe in the second paper of the profusely illustrated series on “American Universities and Colleges;” Major-General O. O. Howard tells something of the “Character and Campaigns of General Robert E. Lee,” and among the illustrations to this article is the last portrait of the great Confederate; there is an interesting paper on pottery by Lawrence Mendenhall; an excellent Christmas story is contributed by Margaret E. gangster; in “Canoeing Down the Rhine,” Rochefart Calhoun takes the readers pleasantly from Basel to Heidelberg; Francis Wilson’s new play ‘Half a King, is described and pictured with portraits and views of the principal sceneis; Varina Anne Jefferson Davis, the “Daughter of the Confederacy,” has something to say of the preposed Battle Abbey of the South; and there are numerous short stories and poems, and an attractive young folks’ department, More than the usual one hundred illustrations are given in this number.

I. E. French reports that his company, Massachusetts Mutual Life, has paid the claim Qf SIOOO for Dr. Mills, who died a few weeks ago. Dr. Mills took out his policy May 19th, 1896.