, 1885-08-13
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IVAN whirh J.. Apr rent The News.
paper Editors Work.

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1t Is a little remarkable and slightly
ridiculous that the magazine editor does
not do nny editing. lie merely selects
and arranges matter for publication
which in great newspaper o ices is in-
trusted to sntordinates. This want OF
editing IS painfully apparent in every is
sue Of the magazines, where solecisms,
mistakes OF fact. and blemishes result
ing from sloyenly editing are only too
common The systems of newspaper
and magazine editing-if the last do.
serves to be called editing-are radio
ally different.
Tho newspaper editor, armed with a
relentless heart, an unfinehing hand,
und a blue pencil. goes through a man
uscript like n surgeon with q dissecting
knife lie has besides his literary repu-
tation at stake, like a magazine editor,
his business and political interests also
for newspapers are strictly business
enterprises, which magazines are not
always there rs more than one promi-
nent maya Inc in this country run by
a great publishing firm as an advertise
ment, and one or two as literary pas
times very much as other capitalists
keep yachts and ~trotters.
There is. of course, a very great differ
ence in the manner OF the two sorts of
editors. The newspaper editor must be
brief sometimes he must DO brusque.
He is always polite if he is a first
class editor, but his eye often van
ders to the big b%razen-faced clock
hanging somewhere in the office, by
which everything is run, and when he
says his time is limited he is telling the
truth. he knows the very minute when
the clang of the presse in the sub-cel-
lar of the printing office must begin.
The maya inc editor, on the contrary,
is disposed TO be conversational. lie
has d whole month before him to ar
range the matter for a publication about
as big as the Sunday edition of a great
New j ork daily, and as many months
as he chooses to deliberate where the
pictures shall 90 in an article on The
lrobahle Shape of the Sea Cows Tail in
the Paleogoic triod," or Operations
Before Tripoli in 1000, by Capt. Hal
yard and Commander Lanyard, L. 5.
n, and other sab. ects Of contempora-
neous human interest.
The newspaper editor, on the on
trary, has about twenty four hours to
edit an article on the spanish treaty,
Tor example, going over the whole
RrOuuu oil commercial treaties, the con
stitutional rights Of house and senate in
treaty making, its effect on the tariff,
its status in di erent sections of the
country, the whole thing to be com
pressed into three-quarters of a column,
with the certainty that If he slips up
once, every one of his esteemed contem.
poraries will be bounding him next
morning. and that he will never
be able TO write another lins
on the subject Of CONNER
mercial treaties without being reminded
in a printed chorus, with the charming
~frankncss of newspaper men, that he ID
a monumental ohm donkey, and this
continual grind going on every day in
the week and every week in the year,
and a thousand other things of as much
Importance as'the Spanish treaty press
ing him; with literature and art demand
ing to be heard as much in a newspaper
as in a maya inc, vorily, the newspaper
editor is torn to ink and misery.
must again repeat that this typical edi.
tor ielongs TO a great and powerful
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