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 * Frank Leslie's Christmas book was a special compilation of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. It was considered a gift book created in the autumn just in time for the holiday season for children and their families. The book was a leisure and entertaining read, including stories of fantasy and folklore, with poetry and popular verses of the time, including Shakespeare and Robert Louis Stevenson.Surprisingly, there is only one single Christmas story, which made it an even more appealing purchase, for a child could enjoy the context any time of year. The book is filled with dozens of pictures, ranging in style, from wood engravings to lithographs, metal engravings to half-tone. The variety in styles creates a more interesting read. The binding itself is fairly simple. The cover is a durable cardboard material with colored paper around it, bonded with binding blue tape on the spine. The paper is made of wood pulp, and it is already beginning to crumble apart when you turn specific pages. Selected color images, such as the one below of the young girl, within the book are a type of laminated paper, which prevents it from aging as fast as the bare wood pulp pages. **

=<span style="color: #086914; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">Frank Leslie Biography: = =<span style="color: #ff0057; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> " Never Shoot Over The Heads Of the People" = =<span style="color: #ff0057; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> - Frank Leslie =

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 * Frank Leslie, originally named Henry Carter, was born in Ipswich England in 1821 to Joseph Carter and his wife. At an early age, Leslie had an incredible artistic talent. When his father sent him to London in order to work at a dry food mill, Leslie began to experience and become familiar with pencil and engravings. He sent many to the London Illustrated News. **

// Frank Leslie's First known wood engraving of the Coat of Arms of Ipswich, created in 1834.//

 * This is when he began to use the nom de plume "Frank Leslie", for he did not want his family to discover his relationship with this illustrated paper, for his pictures were well received, and he soon after abandoned the dry-goods business that his father sent him to London to pursue, and joined the London Illustrated news. As his pictures continued to be printed, Leslie was soon the superintendent of his illustrated department. As his years at the London Illustrated News continued, he learned not only his trade of engraving, but every aspect of the printing business. With this new knowledge, Frank Leslie decided to immigrate to America in order to start his own paper in 1848. When he arrived in New york, he left his name Henry Carter behind, and traveled to Boston as Frank Leslie in order to work for Gleason's Pictorial. In 1854, Frank Leslie began his first publishing venture back in New York called //The Gazette of Fashion//, which was instantly popular. With such positive responses, in 1855, he produced //Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.// **


 * Frank Leslie's publications were well known for their illustrations. During the Civil War, Leslie was able to employ dozens of illustrators who documented battles, speeches, and conflicts that he then printed for all the country to see, or at least the North to see. **



E//mancipation in South Carolina, January 24th 1863 from Frank Leslie's Illustrates Newspaper.//

 * But what Frank Leslie was most well known for was his ability to produce engravings with great speed and accuracy. In his process, he divided the picture plain up into sections, giving several engravers a piece of a picture to complete. In doing this, he was able to print pictures within his illustrated newspaper in the shortest amount of time. It was said that his artists were able to produce a single engraving in lass than 24 hours, a great feat for this time! As his publishing business grew, so did Frank Leslie's reputation, making Frank Leslie a name to remember. At one point, Leslie had ten different papers being printed at once, including; : The Ladies Journal", " Illustrated Almanac", "The Boys and Girl Weekly", "Chimney Corner", "The Sunday Magazine", "Boys of America", "Pleasant Hours", "The Budget of Fun", "The Jolly Joker","Chatterbox", and "The Popular Monthly". The Popular Monthly is where our Christmas Book is taken from. Leslie married twice, producing three boys who all resided in his publishing business. After having a successful publishing business, which gradually faded into debt by the end of his life, he died in 1880 at the age of 59. **

= Mrs. Frank Leslie Biography : =

===**<span style="color: #c20a32; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Mrs. Frank Leslie, maiden name Mariam Florence Folline, was born in New Orleans in 1831. She wrote from a young age and was employed to work for Frank Leslie's Ladies Magazine, meeting Mr. Leslie, and soon after married. Her skills aided Mr. Leslie, and when Leslie was diagnoised with cancer, Mrs. Leslie was able to take over the family business. At this point, the publishing house, and her husband, had acquired a large amount of debt reaching to $300,000. Before the death Mr. Leslie's, he told her to "go to my office, sit in my place, and do my work until my debt is paid." She did more than that, she pulled Leslie's publishing house out of debt, and reestablished it to the successful house hold name that it once was. in 1881, Mrs. Folline officially changed her name to Frank Leslie, and became the owner of her husbands great publishing empire. It is during her reign that our **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Christmas <span style="color: #086914; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Book **<span style="color: #c20a32; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> was created. **===

= Table of Contents : = ===**<span style="color: #002980; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">This book consists of over forty stories, poems, biographies, and natural history accounts for children, each with a variety of illustrations from wood block prints to lithographs. The stories have no relationship with each other, meaning that they do not share the same genre or subject matter. The stories do attempt to teach the reader, whether about the habitat of monkeys or the moral purpose of a folklore or the cultural differences between America and a foreign country. Within the Table of contents, the authors of the texts are not mentioned, nor are they displayed anywhere at the beginning or end of the book. Which means that the title and pictures would be the tools used in order to capture the readers attentions.The images within these stories are either representing the story being read OR they have absolutely nothing to do with the story, and are there for merely decoration. All of these pictures have a small caption at the bottom of the page in order to guide the reader to the specific passage that the picture is depicting. The pictures that have no writing passage within the book do have a small passage that depicts the meaning of the illustration. Here are a couple of examples of stories that would be included, and if you click on the story, the pictures are included as well: **===

===**<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//The Bald-Headed Boy//, a story about a young boy who could not grow hair, but was still destine for greatness **===

**<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">@Monkey's and Monkey-Shines, an account about the habitat and behavior of monkeys, lemurs, and baboons **
===**<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//The Early Life and Genius of Edison//, an account of the life of Thomas Edison and how he became the great man that we know him to be **===

**<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Peculiar Pets//, a list of animals and their behaviors that make interesting pets **
===**<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Illusions of the Senses//, a compilation of how images create illusions by placing lines, shades, and objects within a picture frame. **=== ===**<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Little Japs, an account of how American boys and girls differ from Japanese boys and girls, said from Colonel Cockerill point of view **===

**<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Ariel's Song to Ferdinad, a verse from Shakespeare's "The Tempest". **
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 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Since this book was originally extracted from a magazine, a variety of advertising for objects such as soaps and perfumes fill the beginning and the end of this book. What great stocking stuffers! These objects would have been for the middle class. Most of the ads would be accompanied with an image, no different than the ads we see today. The purpose of these pictures would be to make the items as appealing as possible. They would not be as expensive and luxurious items, but items that would be common in a household such as: **