Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-04-19
rHE ARr NANAaER,s DEN.


THE ART MANAaER's DEN.
~ The Century received 10000 manu-
cripts in 1889 and 5000 in 1888. For
pmo years previous the average was
bout 1000. All manuscripts submitted
~ the writer's are taken up by staff
oader and separated for closer attention
~ special readers The method of clas-
fying and numbering manuscripts so
bat they may be identified ut any stage
hiring their handling varies in different
Ices. The Century plan is to enter
sery manuscript In book rs soon as IL
pmes in the mail. The entry begins
Nth number by which that manuscript
uil be known 80 long as it remains in
u he Office or until returned to the author
6 - printed.
The number Is consecutive one In
series, as No. -, in series A, b, G,
I'D 90 on, each letter representing q
6ties of 10000. The authors name and
tdress, date Of receipt, acceptance, re-
nfn, or whatever the disposition of 1t af-
reading, follows the number, and this
9mber is placed upon the first page Of
- article for future use. An index to
- manuscript book shows the name Of
yNry author in list arranged alphabet
po1ly, and the number or numbers Of
n manuscripts as received. Should
nerc be several manuscripts in the office
ono time from the same author each
10 have q separate number in the man.
cript book, and the index book shows
- number given to each. A book of
ccepted articles shows the length OF
~ manuscript accepted, tho authors
xne and the department to which it
longs, essays, sketches, illustrated arti-
-, poetry, etc.
The kind of matter offered to maga-
he indicates some peoples ideas of lit
rature, people who look upon maga-
line as newspaper. Persons styling
hemselves authors will ask to see the
oaitor-in-chief and open conversation by
eaking of "your paper"
OF late years illustrations have become
strong feature Of magazine making.
they are demand of the times, although
he Atlantic, Lppincotts and one or
NO others flourish without them. Peo-
= of today are constantly delighted
nth objects about them that are artistic
md instructive. Life is embellished, by
- way, in all circles except the lowest,
some ideal presentment. So, when in
eading, and the better the article the
onter the desire, they ask for an object
son to fasten upon the mind the pict-
- called up by the text. The making
illustrations places great burden upon
1itor and publisher. The Century, for
AtAnce, expends probably $4,000 an
ally upon illustrations, that is, for
&1ginal drawings and engraving.
The engraving is very expensive, and
1ts sometimes 5000 to $500 on single
oge. The cuts in one article, as illustra-
nns are used in The Century at present,
1T as much as those in whole number
the magazine ten years ago. The wood
Engraving is done on block upon which
- drawing has been photographed. The
eoto-engraying process is used in repro
Dctions of prints and pen drawings on
&Per. Right here it occurs TO me to say
~ there is, after all, one profession not
terdone In America. It is that of an
ostrator. By this ! mean the art of
ending in picture the ideas suggested
~ the text.
Good art is not the chief desideratum,
1lthough it must be present. Good Illus
<ntOrs do not come from art schools as a
S1lle. E. A. Abbey, Remington and KEN
-. the best of the day. do not come
rom art schools. An illustrator usually
~eins as an amateur, sketching some
reat fire, or railway accident, or some
goup of faces and attitudes that strike
- eye. He trains his hand to the work
giving ideas q tangible form, and not
&nply to the reproduction of artistic
gms from copies that anybody can use
~ that are familiar on all sides.
Every illustrated magazine has a flood
drawings offered, just as manuscripts
-. Few Of those offered are of any
ne for magazine use, because, while
~ may show good art, they do not
~ or any idea that it is desirable to
eerate. Occasionally a piece Of work
9ys In that shows talent and the
ylce may be encouraged by a few
- and suggestions. Many would be
erators place great store upon their
education, and are grieved when
y learn that their class attainments
not passport for preferment in
1etical life and that class training is
even an essential.
ne Century staff Of illustrators are
York men. Very little Of their
outside of the city of New York is
> BY outside artists. Men of the regu.
nan are sent to distant points. The
for this work is good, and a fair
TRAITOR, ON an equality in his profes.
with good general writer ON the
-. makes sl5 to SEQ day. The in.
y o. good artist is 5000 year,
stars may make SIS, 900.
the engraving department. too, there
scarcity Of artists. A good wood en-
fer earns $1,000 to 5000 year.
Century company probably does
y wood engraving than any other
Y Ia this country. aud the good work
y they produce in the magazine