New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-19
MAGAZINE CHANGES AND Personal NAT
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rrRoW THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT TRIBUSE.l
LONDON, January p.
After some changes of plan, it is now definitely
settled Subject TO any future uGsettlement) that
Mess1s. Macmillan are not to publish new Review
for Mr. John Morley TO edit. Instead of new Re
view we are to have an old magazine in new hands,
and the editorshin of the existing Macmillan is to
pass under ;he control of the executor OF The
Fortpiqktly Mr. George Grove retires. having more
on his hands in the way of music, musical diction-
aries and other matters. than he can conveniently
combine with monthly editing The form and pnce
of the magazine will remain as at present, except
that the number OF pages may be increased. Need
less to say that i'll character il viii undergo total
transformation. Mr.. Morley IS TO have free scope
and TO talk as much politics ana political economy
as be likes.
Literature. however, will not he neglected and in
Mr.. Morleys literary work his friends of every po-
litical hue will reoice-whch is more than some OF
rs can always do over his new
radicalsm on sundry political questions.
Week by week The Pal Mall Gazette, to
which Mr.. Morley now devOtes his brilliant ablil-
ties. is becoming more and more hopoessly COM
promised on Irish matters-more and more openly
in favor of Home Rule, and more dogmatically GER
tain that the plunge into the bOttOmess pit which
nnderlies Home Rule will have TO be taken. AT odd
moments il gives voice notions of social reform
which its more sober readers cannot but regard as
MANAGING When the Government lays hands
an ecore of Irish assassins, The Pal Mall warns us
that the evidence of nformers must be received
with caution. When an Irish editor Is sent To prison
for preaching sediion. the British public is bid TO
look across the Channel and how much more vio-
lent articles NJ Rochefort prints with mpunity in
Paris When a screeching harridan like Louise
Michel of whom Paris will no more. seeks an
audience in London the same journal gravely dis
cusses her rawlings. Aud so on. tits all done with
so mastery power of statement and i'll 80 pure
literary form as TO secure attention and admIra-
ton from those who most dislike the doctrines pre-
sented in this seductive Dress But l suspect not
few of Mr.. Morey's readers arc beginning to ask
| themselves how much further he requires them to
90 with him on the road he is travelling. III
The Fortnightly he used to take stronger line
than in The Pail Mall If he pursues 1t III Aacnil-
an the readers of that respectable periodical will
experience novel sensations. 1t is in May next that
they are to be handed over TO Mr.. MOrleys tender
mercies.
The same publishers have it in contemplation to
issue in the coming autumn the first number of a
new illustrated magazine. OF this Mr. J.iComyns
Carr one of the soundest and best writer's who now
have much to say Art, will be the editor.This new
periodical Is not to be devoted to art but TO be
whether an English illustrated magazine
can hold its own with HGrpa's and The
| Century, both of which, / suppose.
| domesticated in England. | presume, though l do
| not know, that Messrs. Macmillan will rely
English artists and English engravers, on Euro
pean If not exclusively on English. So here at last
| is the answer to the despairng appeal of the Eng
lish critic to the English publisher not to abandon
| the field without an effort to his American rival.
| The shilling magazine referred to in of the
| literary journals about to be reduced in price
| TO sixpence 10 The Co,nMU, published by Messrs
Smith a. Elder, and edited, since Nr. Leslie
| Stephens resignation, by Mr.. James Payn. The
change will perhaps take effect in July. but be-
| lieve it is not yet quite resolved on.
| The following editorial paragraph is to be found
| In Macmilian's Magazine for February:
| Many inquiries having been made as to the delay
In the conclusion OF Fortunes fOo the proprietors
think il due to themselves to say that their only
reason for stopping its publication has been their
author. II is hoped that Mr. Hawthorne will send
them, In which case they will at once be printed
If Mr. Julian Hawthorne has any care for his repu
tatlon in England he will do well to pay heed to
this rather stringent remark to his address. Even
a line of polite apology to the proprietors and
readers OF the periodical which he has so long left
| in the lurch would be better than nothing
Thus far he has not given himself the
| trouble to answer even acknowledge
| their repeated requests for more manuscript
| And what makes Mr.. Hawthorne's conduct the
more difficult to excuse Is the fact (which Messrs
Macmillan good-naturedly omit to state) that he has
been paid 10 full for the novel of which he refuses
| TO supply the conclusion. Even should he retu IN
the money for which he fails to hand over the prom
lsed equivalent, he could not repay his publishers
for their loss. 1t is light thing for periodical
to appear play false with its readers; to begin
story and not finish it and some of the letters to
which Messrs Macmillan refer so mildly were very
violent in Tone Mr. Hawthorne's breach of con-
tract threatens to injure his fellowauthors as WELL
II ia often to their convenience receive pay, or