Munsey's Magazine

Munsey's Magazine Volume XVI (October 1896–March 1897) This bound volume collects six months of Munsey's Magazine, a general-interest periodical combining illustrated features with fiction. The issue includes three running serials: "The Christian" by Hall Caine, "Corleone" by F. Marion Crawford, and "In the Reign of Boris" by Robert McDowell. Short fiction appears from established and newer writers—stories like "A Broken Lorgnette" by Joseph Sebastian Rookes, "My Last Affair," and "The Parson of Cactus Flats" by Vernon Day. The magazine features substantial nonfiction sections on portraiture (articles on Reynolds and Lawrence), American genealogy (the Carrolls, Paints, Washingtons, and Polks), and royal history. A significant arts section covers contemporary painting in France and America, including work by women artists Juana Romani and Henriette Ronner, plus American mural decoration projects in Washington and Peoria libraries. Departments include regular columns on theater, music, and current events, plus numerous poems from period verse writers.