Munsey's Magazine, October 1892

Munsey's Magazine, October 1892 This issue features a lengthy illustrated essay on the 19th-century French battle painter Alphonse Marie de Neuville, by C. Stuart Johnson. The article surveys de Neuville's career—born in St. Omer in 1836, he studied law before turning to art under François Picot. Beginning with Crimean War subjects, he gained prominence through canvases of Garibaldi's Italian campaigns and the Franco-Prussian War. De Neuville specialized in realistic, unglamorized warfare: nameless soldiers, devastated villages, and hand-to-hand combat rather than heroic commanders. Works discussed include "The Attack on a Barricaded House" (1874), "Defense of Le Bourget" (depicting desperate French resistance), "Last Cartridges" (Sedan episode), and his final work "Flag of Truce" (1885). Reproductions of five paintings accompany the text. The issue also contains a brief romantic poem, "A Memory," by Douglas Hemingway, describing lovers parted a year prior who now separately married; and the opening installment of "Dramatic Scenes in American History" by Richard H. Titherington, focusing on naval exploits, beginning with John Paul Jones's 1779 battle between the *Bon Homme Richard* and HMS *Serapis* off Flamborough Head.