This is the October 1895 issue of FRANK LESLIE’S POPULAR MONTHLY MAGAZINE.  This issue was once bound, as was common for library copies.  This publication competed with Harper’s Monthly Magazine, and The Century Monthly Magazine in the late 1800’s.  The pages are clean and very readable.  This issue contains 120 pages, with many interesting stories about Art, Literature, History, and Science.  Additional pictures are available upon request.  Please include your e-mail address.

ARTICLES:

DEEPDENE - by M. F. Leicester Addis - illustrated

A COMMON PLEA - by Lily Coheo - illustrated

SOUVENIRS OF SIENA - by John Addignton Symonds

MONTE OLIVETO - by E. C. Vansittart – illustrated (See picture “Olivetans At Dinner”)

THE ROAD TO VARLEY - A poem by Norman Gale

AUTUMN EVENING - A poem by Katharine Tynan

“THE MERMAIDS ROCK” – Full-page plate from the painting by E. Matthew Hale

THE MAGNET STONE - by Frances Swann Williams - illustrated

THE SISTERS – Full-page plate from the painting by Andreotti (See portrait)

PSYCHE – Full-page plate from the painting by A. Gessner (See picture)

FROM DAWN TO DUSK - A poem by Arthur Salmon

JANE - by Dorothy Deane - illustrated

WOMEN AS ATHLETES - by W. De Wagstaffe - illustrated

BURMESE WOMEN - by H. Fielding - illustrated

A GLIMPSE INTO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY - by Champion Bissel - illustrated

NOONTIDE IN A MINSTER - A poem by E. V.

THE TOWN AND CLOTH HALLS OF FLANDERS - by Alexander Ansted – illustrated by the author

WIDOWED SOVEREIGNS - by Oakey Hall

THE MARSH ROAD - by Ezra Hurlburt Stafford - illustrated

ALPINE SOLDIERS - illustrated

THE AFFAIR IN THE BELFRY - by Charles Edwardes - illustrated

COME, WEAVE ME A SONG - A poem by Catharine Glen

THE LAST OF TORQUATO TASSO - by Marie Walsh - illustrated

LIGHT GIVERS - by Mary Titcomb - illustrated

GENTIAN - by Lillian Rodman

GOOD NEWS FROM A FAR COUNTRY - Martha McCulloch Williams

GEOGRAPHICAL NEWS - by George Hurlbut, Secretary of the American Geographical Society

RECENT PROGRESS IN SCIENCE - by Ernest Ingersoll

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