The state chronicle., 1893-05-25
A RRILLIANT MAGAZINE
In Which q North Carolina Boy Is In
terested.

"A BRlALIAN1 MAU6AtNk
In which North Carolina Boy is In
terested.
Mr.. ALT. 81. Marsh, an old Raleigh
bov, and now one of tina stockhold-
ers and officers in the Associated
Literary Press and McClure's Mag
szire, Of 743-5 Broadway New York,
is in the city for few days en-
route to Atlanta, Ga, where he will
spend several weeks. MIR. Marsh is
we'll known in Raleigh and the
State generally, having been raised
here. In 1880, when about ten
years old, he was page in the leg
islature.
After several years at school, he
began newspaper work here and
later moved to Atlanta, Ga. About
two years ago he decided to risk his
chances in New York. He succeeded
in getting in with a liberal and
growing concern, and in so short a
time has risen from a subordinate
Office position to assistant manager.
The Associated Literary Press is
the largest newspaper syndicate in
existence. It ia comparatively new
institution in the newspaper world,
this, the first one, having been es-
tabl;shed il 1884. It is the middle
man of the writer's and the newspa-
pers. It buys high class literary
matter from authors and sells it by
contract to the papers in different
parts of the country for simulta-
Ineous publication.
| At the present time the Assocla-
ted Literary Press is furnishing
about fifty thousand words per
week to about thirty Of the largest
papers. This matter consists of sto-
ries and novels by the greatest au-
thors, fashion, scientific, political,
and timely articles on all subjects
by the most authoritative writer's
It has agents and correspondents in
all parts of the world.
u The Sunday editions OF such pa
pers as the New York Sun, the Phil
adelphia Inquirer, Boston Globe
, Chicago Inter Ocean, st. Louis Re
public. San Francisco Chronicle anc
! many other great papers-are fur
t nished their special matter through
! the Associated Literary Press.
"David Balfour," Robert Loui
Stevenson's latest novel has JUS
finished serial publication in tn
i papers. It was purchased from Nj,
s Stevenson at cost of over $4,000
q by the syndicate, and yet the COS
Q to the individual papers WAS com
i paratively small. The Associate,
o Literary Press numbers among it
+ contributors nearly every famou
9 living writer.
ii McClure's Magazine, the frs
9 number OF which is just from tn
r press, will be published in connec
l. ton with the Associated Literar,
e Press. It is a handsome publics
d ton, finely and profusely illustrs
Is ted, brilliant and unique in cor
y tents, and is sold at Is cents copy
3 or 81 50a year. lis contents are g
a follows:
i Real Conversations IA Dis
20 logue between ". D. Howells an
> II. H. Boyesen. illustrated. R,
% corded by H. Il. Boyesen.
ri & Comedy of War.-A Story b
- Joel Chandler Harris, with elevs
10 pictures.
- The Capture OF Wild Animals
20 An Interview with Karl Hagenbecl
70 fully illustrated. Written by Ra,
~ mond Blathwsyt.
y Under Sentence of the Law =
=, ls Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson.
~ Story with ten Pictures.
'ls Parton's Rules of Biography
a Eight Letters by James Parton.
:S, :1, A Day with Gladstone .-Ful
.n H. Illustrated By II. W. Massin
I"' ham.
y Where Man Got His Ears. :
Professor Henry Drummond. Ell
cidated by pictures.
10 m Count de Lesseps To-Day -Illu
w trated. By R 81. Sherard.
n The Edge of the Future. Int
a. views with Thomas A. Edison 81
iii Alexander Graham Bell.
!. The Nymph of the Eddy.--Illr
~ trated. A Story by Gilbert Park,
eo On the Track of the Revie wer.
Is; How Hugh Bronte sought vene
nd arce on hostile reviewer Of "Ja
* Eyre" By DIR. Wright.
.s- Human Documents --Introduct
IT. ry Article by Sarah Orne Jewe
.sh Being portraits at different ages
ro- their lives of ". D. Howells,
er- phonse Daudet, II. 81. Boyesen a
mt General Lew Wallace.
di- Europe at the Present Moment.
By III. de Blowitz.
Stranger Than Fiction.
It will undoubtedly take rank
WI one of the greatest magazines
nd the day. Il should be especia
lth Interesting to North Carolinians
re, one OF her young men is interest
70. in it.
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