The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1859-05-11

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Bonner has acquired " magnificent re-
nown" by . very simple lsdger-dssain.
But Bonner, a. publishing prodigy, thrsat-
ems to be outdone by . mythical parsonage,
POLITICALLY known as Frank Leslie. -
This euphonical individual sonds his cout.t:
less publications, weeklies, inonthlies and
quarterlies, to us to be-well spoken Of
There seems to be no end to Mr.. Lesie's
pictorials.. When we have noticed his II.
lustrated paper" he sends US his Illus.
trated monthly" and then, in turn his
Pictorial par e*csllsncs; and his "Ga.
zette" and "Jot.rnal," and " comic month.
ly," and Funny weekly" and we have
almost grown to Believe this same" Leslie"
is o moral monomaniac, and is laboring TO
convert the world through the instrumen.
tality Of pictoyials.
Possibly Nj. Leslie may be d sety smart
man, but upon what reasons he founds the
supposition that we are going to notice his
pictorial hydras, we are at = loss to guess
Does Mr.. Leslie imagine that our artistic
eye is sufficiently educated to perceive the
beauty of railroad accident said to have
happened within the week, when memory
and eyesight tells US that the incidental ac-
cident happened in the Illustrated London
Neses some time ago? Does Mr.. Leslie sup.
pose that we win be especially interested III
dreadful accidents that borrow most Of their
horror from the engraver?
What kind of q man is Leslie, at all =
We have, stretched out before US, what il
called magniAccntly Illustrated sheet"
On one page is "splendid illusttatien Of
. woman who was saved from drowning,
by her crinoline," which miraculous inter-
position Of Providential whaleboncf is here
represented, as sitting buoyant on the
limpid wavc," while couple of limbs are
left helplessly pendant beneath, suggesting
great many dreadful doubts as to whether
said pendants will escape the ravages of
epicurean water monsters. And this un-
fortunate creature thus left to the mercy of
the tide, smiles at the enraptured reader,
with that sweet expression, one sees on beh-,
eft nights, and seems to say" Don't feel
alarmed for me. I've been in worse con-
ditions before, from balloon ascension to
a steamboat explosion and recognize you,
though am somewhat altered myself"
We have been surfeited with pictorial
horrors ever since the stump tail +" coup:
Does corpse get washed ashore, some
where, Frank Leslie seizes upon it, and If
TIE uS0eS OF T8lS nave nuIllAteO IL, 50 muC4
The better We have it "by our special
artist" portrayed. Has a graveyard been
robbed, Frank Leslie alone has all the mi.
nutia, even to the torn shroud and wormy
coffin, and holds up the edifying details to
the Public.
This would be bearable, but for the fact
that not content with charging us five cents
for the first edition of horror, he passes
it through his endless succession of publ
cations, and we find, what was only mur-
der or dreadful accident at first, turning
up in some of his other faithful rcfec-
tions," as the recent tragedy, or the late ca:
lamity.
Wood cuts are very good in their places,
but all questions Of excellence are here
merged into the Itore important one of--do
they never wear outg BY and by, when
this redoubtable Leslie gets to publishing
pictorial for every day in the month, people
will begin to have some hopes that the con-
slant wear and tear of these cuts, will soon
extinguiSh them.