Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-12-09

From the start he gave to the Journal
different tone that it ever had. With
in three years le raised the circulation
to 100000 copies ut an increased price.
To please such AZ army is not child's
play it calls fol JOURNALISTIC skill of the
most uncommon order. That young
man at % can succeed in pleasing a.
monthly audience of over 2.OOO,OOo
souls-alowing three readers to each
COPY of the Journal-gives to Edward
Box record possessed by no other edi-
tor of our time.
The secret of this famous young edi-
tors success lies in his almost perfect
knowledge of what the public will read,
and his remarkable ability to get the
best out of authors. No editor can bring
a public and author closer together than
can Mr.. Box. He has way of knowing
lust the right time to put forth the right
thought, and the right man or woman to
express that;thought. His editorial in
stinct in that respect is remarkable. He
has creative mind, and the additional
faculty of carrying out an idea as well
as to conceive it. He can appreciate
both the commercial and editorial side of
feature, and in this respect he is equal
ly as valuable to the business department
i'm the Journal as he is in the editorial.
His business Judgment is calm and ac-
curate. The writer remembers remark
in this connection of Mr.. Curtis, the pub
Usher of the Journal, touching Mr.. Box:
sHe is one lof those rare creations, an
all round man, and could as successfully
manage the business end of the Journal
as he does now the editorial"
Mr.. BOX is now one of the owners of
the magazine, the great success of which
he has been so largely instrumental in
making. He was given at the start a
salary of $4,000 per year, and last year
was given an interest in the journal
which is said to net him more than twice
his salary. He is also the creator and
owner, in conjunction with his brother,
of the prosperous' Box Syndicate Press
in New York city. The young editor
is unmarried, and although his head
quarters are in Philadelphia he lives at
home with his mother and brother in
fashionable apartments at the Hotel st.
George, in Brooklyn, N. Y, to which
he goes each week.
Something of the thoroughness with
which Mr.. Box does his work is EVIL
| -, ~
in writing the literary letter which
readers of the Boston Journal enjoy
each week. This letter has behind II
something of the machinery of "A
regularly equipped magazine. To secure
the information it contains, Mr.. Box
, sustains continuous and personal
correspondence with over 100 of the
most famous authors of the day. from
whom he learns directly their plans
weeks before any one else knows OF
them. No one enjoys the confidence Of
more famous literary men and women o.
the day than does he, and his intimate
, acquaintance with their plans makes hin
the best posted literary man of the day
But Mr.. Box does not depend upon hi
, own resources in gathering his literar!
information. In each of the five cities O.
New York, Boston, Chicago, Paris ant
f London, he employs salaried represent
q alive, a man or woman in intimate tOucl
with the literary world, who report t.
the young writer each week the lates
literary plans and gossip of his or he
J city of residence. This Mr.. Box work
over and embodes in his letter. Then h
has the ear of every publishing house o
note in America and Europe, and from
: them receives advance and exclusive in
: formation of their plans.
l All this is gone through each week
: and while Mr.. Bok's letter is ostensibl.
7 the work of his own brain. it represent
D behind it the personal work of some o
: the brightest literary brains of this coun
S try and Europe. And it is by thes
I methods that Edward Box has made hi
literary column each week what 1t is
the brightest, newsiest and most accur
o ate reflection of the dOings of literar,
Il people prepared by any writer in tn
: country.-T Boston Journal.