Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-23

After connection with the Advertiser
lasting several years no therefore iouhded'
in conjunction with Mr.. Newton crane,
then Consul at Manchester, England, the
Newark Register. Itdid not succeed, ana
in 1870 it was discontinued. In the mean
time, however, he bad become one of the
editors of Hours at Home. AT this period
his labors were exceptionally severe; ne
really did the work of two. In 1870 ScrlO-
ner's Monthly was established, ana Hours
at Home having been merged WIN il, MI
Glider, at DIR. Hollands. invitation, De-
came associate editor of the new pu0u-
cation. On the death of DR.. Holland. IN
1881, he was appointed editor-in-chlel OF
the magazine, the name OF which nad
been changed to the Century, His desk
in his loft eyrie III the Century building is
Uttered with books, pamphlets and papers,
and ranged around the pleasant room are
low bookcases filled with volumes. here
the tired-looking man of letters is TO be
found daily, and sometimes fari-Iuto the
night. He is married and liVesScose bE
in one the cross streets, where pc writes
his own works during leisure hears OF the
evening. His sister, jeanette L4,Gllder,
stands first in the firm that publishes the
Critic; another brother, Joseph Is. Glider,
Is partner in this journal; still another,
William Fl. Glider, won distinctfofl-iH the
Schwatka and Rodgers expedition to the
Polar regions. .,r.isk
Richard Watson elders versatile pen
has adorned nearly every department. OF
the Century, and he has published tive
volumes Of poetry, "The New Days and
the ''POet and His Master" Anot het vol
ume will shortly appear, entitled ssfLsX TICS
aud Other POEMS" His poeticahprdltuc-
tions nave always been well received. lie
is man of kindly feeling and ds highly
esteemed wherever he is known. tt
A well-built gentleman, rather under
the medium height, with gray eyes and
rather English features. attired in full
dress, who energies from the Union Club
and saunters up Fifth avenue In company
with some well-known members of New
York society, is Edgar Fawcett, the poet
and novelist. He has very coy bachelor
rooms in East Twenty-seventh street. He
was born in New York City May 20, lS47.
His preliminary education was obtained
in New York schools, and in 1867 he was
graduated from Columbia College. His
mother was Miss Lawrence, one OF an
old Long Island family, which had fine
old homestead at Astoria, now owned by
Edward Woolsey, of Wall street. Mr..
Fawcetfs first volume of poems, "Short
Poems for Short People" appeared in 1872;
tnen followed in prose or verse. "Purple
and Fine Linen" "Ellen Story" "A Hope
less case" "a Gentleman of Leisure"
\ dubdSl anu L dsslOu. IAulIGA A'lhs
Thinking CymbaIs, ""The Adventures of
a Widow" "SOng and Story" IAN Am
bilious Woman" Romance of a Revery,"
''The Bunting Ball." 1.-THE New King
Arthur" and ''Social Silhouettes." His
most successful book is "a Gentleman of
Leisure" which was written six years
ago, and which has gone through nine edi-
tions. He recently finished a novel enti-
tied "The Confessions of Claud."
1t is a story OF a murderer's son,
and is q study of heredity. The
son, more cultivated and polished
than his guilty father, commits similar
crime, and the main interest centres in the
manner in which the sOmbre secret affects
his life and character. Mr.. Fawcett is
now writing a novel to be called "The
House at High Bridge" in which the in
terest hinges in a literary theft, the theft
of novel in manuscript, and the scene is
laid at High Bridge in the upper part of
New York. 1t transpires that the hero of
the story has written the stolen novel in
his youth. a fact which he discovers after
he had fallen IN love with the daughter of
the man who had wrOnged him.