This is the November 1896 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:

AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES - YALE UNIVERSITY - by George Henry Nettleton – illustrated (See picture “Class of 1897 Baseball Team”)

GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE - MRS. LEE DURING THE WAR, SOMETHING ABOUT “THE MESS” AND ITS OCCUPANTS - by Sally Nelson Robins – illustrated (See portrait “Mary Curtis Lee” Lexington, 1869)

THE STAGE DEBUTANTE - by Arthur Hornblow – illustrated (See portrait “Anna May Cooper”)

FATHER JOHN - by Edith Session Tupper - illustrated

MADAGASCAR AND THE MALAGASY - by Mary Titcomb - illustrated

THE DREAM OF LOVE - A poem by Lurana W. Sheldon

A LITTLE VENTURE INTO A BIG WORLD - by John Gilmer Speed - illustrated

REALITY - A poem by Clifford Howard

A NOTE OF THANKS – A poem by May D. Hatch

A DUAL METROPOLIS - Minneapolis and St. Paul, “The Twin Cities” of the Northwest - by Charles Thomas Logan - illustrated

THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN - THE GOLD STANDARD - by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge

THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES - William McKinley, and Garret A. Hobart - by Champion Bissell - illustrated

LOVE MAD AS THE TORRENT - by Captain Jack Crawford, “The Poet Scout”

THE NOVICES OF HEAVEN - A poem by Ella Higginson

AT THE BOOKSTALL – Full-page plate from the painting by Jean Sala

EGG-HUNTING ON THE SOUTH FARALLON - by C. H. Thomson - illustrated

FOR THE LOVE OF A LADY - AN IDLY OF THE BALTIC - by Louis Pendleton

FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS:

            AN ADVENTURE WITH THE CUBAN REBELS - by Frederick A. Ober - illustrated

GERALD’S MISSION - A STORY OF THE EAST AND THE WEST - by Horatio Alger Jr.

TALKS ABOUT THE NEW BOOKS - A MONTHLY GUIDE TO CURRENT LITERATURE