Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-05-13

Scribner's Mcnthly, an Illustrated Maya
zine for the People-Conducted by J. G..
Holand-Vbl. XVII Nov. 1878. to
April 1879, inclusive) - New York:
Scribner & Co, No. 743 Broadway.
II is said on good authority that, in
six months past, the edition OF ScribRer'S
HonihH has leaped up to twenty thou
sand copies, while there has been also a
very remarkable advance in the English
edition. Notwithstanding the uneNam-
Piled commercial depression in England.
The English publisher has recently IN
creased his order by one thousand at
a single bound The rapid growth OF
this magazine since it's foundation less
than nine years ago, and particularly Its
tremendous strides toward the very
first place during the past year or two,
and it's remarkable popularity abroad,
piuup the curiosity of the observer.
What is il that makes ScrjbHrr'S Monthly
So surccsSiul?-we ask, as we turn the
leaves of this, its most successful vol
ume.
No doubt, much of its popularity is
due 10 the admirable business tact
eyinced i'm the management. That
which ConQuers the world must have at
least one Bonaparte behind it. But the
first element of publishing tact is to UNI
derstand that substantial and perma-
nrnt success depends on the quality OF
that which is published. n good maya
zine NAV fail for want of skilliul busl-
ness management, but no management
can make poor one substantially sue
CeSSiul.
II was Lord LyttOn. the novelist II We
mistake not, who begged in atter-dinner
speech the privilege OF coming word
To express the converse OF antiquity.
Tie proposed "mOdernity." 1t seems TO
Ms that this word precisely expresses the
GREAT charm OF S'ribHer'S Monthly. Its
moderate is something quite out OF the
ordinary. 4 magazine after many wears
is ant To- be bound by its traditions-to
Jo things because it has done them
.S.l'blrr's is vital and youthful,-it feels
the keenest and quickest sympathy with
tine swift-moving thought and life about
Ms. II is a magazine for the people, ~
rs its title imports, because 1t is a maya
zine of the people, interested IN all that
the people care for.
Is literature. as literature, Is of the
highest class; the most eminent oil the
Young and active generation OF authors
either have grown up under Its auspices
or constantly seek its columns. Its
criticisms are broad and impartial, and
the admirable story OF "Haworths, IN
the present volume, is the work oil the
writer whose literary fame was achlev-
! ed in the pages of Scrjbnsr'S Monthly. .
But, a purely literary magazine could
not have reached this worldwide pOpu-
/ Iarity Modern life is remarkable, we
/ saw again. for its "mOdernitv," and one
| nj the chief features of 'mOdernity' is
/ many-sidednesS. To win the leading
place in popular support, magazine
/ must needs be as many-sided as modern
life itself, and this the conductors OF
| S,riBuer's Monthly appear to have kept
steady in view. Is 1t an art mania that
prevails? Here are such summary arti-
/ rrlas as those on the Tile Club at
/ Work =" and the Tile Club at Play,
/ narfect models of what an illustrated ar
| ticle should be in engraving and IN
/ Ietter-press. And here are such bio
| graphical articles as the one on Leonardo
| 10 Ninri and the one on John Leech.
Is il literary biography and anecdote
that one wants? The charming sketches
of Longiellow and Emerson. accompan,,
led by Wyatt Eaton's portraits, VIII
please YOU. The spirit OF scientific dis
coyery and of mechanical invention is
pratifed in the monthly department
| called "The Worlds Work, and In such