The following editorial comment regarding this plate appears on p. 259:

EDITORIAL NOTES.

We feel sure that our readers will be pleased with the frontispiece to this issue. It is a portrait of Miss Julia Marlowe, and taken by the well-known portrait photographer, Mr. B. J. Falk.

Born Sarah Frances Frost in England, Julia Marlowe (1865-1950) was an American stage actress known for her interpretations of William Shakespeare.

printed within plate margin: From Photo, Copyright 1892.