A complete issue · 128 pages · 1896
Munsey's Magazine, February 1896
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1896 — all 128 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 128 pages · 1896
This issue contains two substantial illustrated articles. "Artists and Their Work" surveys contemporary American art exhibitions and painters. It reports on New York's Sculpture Society and the Metropolitan Museum declining major gifts to maintain standards, discusses the National Academy's winter display (which hung three hundred of nine hundred submissions), and notes the Pennsylvania Academy's exhibition, featuring established names like Sargent, Harrison, and Melchers. The section also celebrates American illustrators including C. D. Gibson, A. B. Frost, Frederic Remington, and others, and profiles sculptor Leonard Volk and his painter son Douglas Volk, noting their family's inheritance of artistic talent. "Calvé at Home" is an interview article about prima donna Emma Calvé, discussing her Paris apartment and country estate in southern France. The biographical account describes her convent education in Montpellier, her father's death forcing her to support siblings, and her early performances before becoming an international opera star in roles including Carmen, Santuzza, La Navarraise, and Ophelia. The article details her homes' furnishings and describes her charitable temperament and interest in spiritualism.
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