Munsey
FRANK ANDREW, Amer- 1000 schools. Was manager of a telegraph a juvenile publication, he changed it to office in Augusta, Me. He came to New a juvenile publication, he changed it to York in 1882 and edited and published a story magazine for adults, as "The 1889, developed into "Munsey's Maga- Argosy." "Munsey's Weekly" started in 1889, developed into "Munsey's Magazine" in the year 1901. As the first popular illustrated magazine of standard size to be sold for ten cents it attained a great circulation and was widely imitated. Mr. Munsey owns and controls "The Argosy," "Munsey's Magazine," All-Story We News," "The Sun," New York, and in All-Story Weekly," "The Baltimore "The Rail Road Man's Magazine," "The Weekly,' "The Baltimore sey has writen several novels and books 1920 acquired "The New York Herald" and "The Evening Telegram." Mr. Mun- 1920 acquired "The New York Herald" for boys. His works are "Under Fire" (1890); "Afloat in (1887); "The Boy Broker" (1888); Great City" forth" (1894). " a few portraits, his works are nearly all "Tragedy of Errors" (1889); "Derringgenre pictures. ing 'Paradise Lost' to His Daughters," amples of his work are "Milton Dictating 'Paradise Lost' to His Daughters," "Christ before Pilate," "Crucifixion," and "Mozart's Last Moments." He died in Bonn, Germany, May 1, 1900.
The best-known ex- MUNROE, CHARLES EDWARD, chemist; born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1849, he graduated from Harvard in 1871, acting as assistant in chemistry till 1874. He was professor in chemistry at the U. S. Naval Academy from 1874 to 1876, and chemist to the torpedo corps, U. S. Naval Torpedo Station and War College 1886-1892. Became dean of faculty at George Washington University in 1893, president of American Chemical ulty at George Washington University in Society in 1898, and special agent of J. S. Census Bureau 1905 and 1910. In 1911 he published "A Primer on Explo- U. S. Census Bureau 1905 and 1910. In sives for Coal Miners."