Munsey's Magazine, December 1896

Munseys Magazine, December 1896 This issue features a two-part illustrated art section. "Artists and Their Work" surveys contemporary painting, sculpture, and decorative arts in America and Europe. It discusses the Boston Public Library's rejection of Frederick MacMonnies' Bacchante sculpture as unsuitable for an educational institution, covering a woman in an "advanced state of exhilaration" and negligible clothing. The section reviews Puvis de Chavannes's completed decorative works for the Boston Library; celebrates American artistic enterprises—Tiffany glass and Rookwood pottery—acquired by European museums; and documents picture vandalism incidents including damage to works by Lely, Alma Tadema, and others across galleries and salons. The second article, "Royal Children," profiles European royal youth including German Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, described as thoughtful and measured; the young King of Spain, noted for precocity and wit; and children of Russian nobility. It emphasizes these children's military training, education, and temperaments as shaping Europe's future leadership.