Munsey's Magazine, March 1896

Munsey's Magazine, Vol. XIV, No. 6 (March 1896) This issue comprises primarily art criticism and biography. The "Artists and Their Work" section reviews contemporary movements in American and European art, reporting on the National Academy's decision to maintain independence rather than merge with the Fine Arts Society, and featuring engravings of representative canvases including works by Joseph Coomans, William F. Hulk, and others. The editors discuss Russian painter Verestchagin's self-imposed Parisian exile following controversial works depicting nihilists executed for regicide and satirizing military warfare. Notes on the Metropolitan Museum's planned expansion to eighteen acres with a marble classical facade drawn by Richard M. Hunt precede a short poem by Clinton Scollard titled "Analogy." The extended biographical article "How Irving Rose to Fame" chronicles Henry Irving's progression from minor roles in 1856 through his breakthrough success as Jingle in an adaptation of Pickwick Papers, crediting American playwright Augustin Daly's play "Leah" with funding the circumstances enabling Irving's celebrated performance in "The Bells."