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Harper.
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, DECEMBER 1893 - MAY 1894.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894. Green Cloth. 974 pp. No table of contents in this bound volume. B/w ills. Green cover with gilt lettering on spine is a little soiled. Corners only lightly bumped. Previous owner's name on verso of frontis. Harper's was introduced in 1850 and pledged to carry original illustrated articles; selections from current literature; a monthly record (brief history of events); an Editor's Table discussing principles and ethics; an Editor's Easy Chair and Drawer, containing literary and general gossip, anecdotes, wit, humor, miscellany; critical notices of books of the day; literary intelligence; pictorial wit and humor, and maybe some satire; and fashions. This volume features articles on Virginia by Thomas Nelson Page; fiction by Owen Wister and Sarah Orne Jewett; George DuMaurier's cartoons and five episodes of his "Trilby"; Lord Byron and the Greek Patriots; the insects known as "walking sticks"; "the Russian and his Jew"; Yale University; five vignettes of Manhattan; articles illustrated by Frederic Remington and Howard Pyle; and Richard Harding Davis on London as well as fiction. A timeless source of reading pleasure! Very Good.
[Book #4146] Price: $22.00 
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