The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-08
The aha Daily Eaale Eridau 1qniug Sepembe, s, 1888

have his volume issued artistically.
w.nld overshadow his less fortunate
brother whose only possession is God
given genius
The lack of fine setting did not pre-
vent Thackerary from writing great
novel when he gave vanity Fair to
the world in rather mean looking yell
low-backed parts, nor would publica-
ton in modern magazine improve the
flavor of "Pickwick Papers very much
over that of the original form Much
of the work that has given Robert
Browning niche high up among the
immortals was con tanned in the series
called Bellies and Pomegrantes"
wre tched little pamphlets with two
columns to page. But it is profitless
to pursue such line of argument
Certainly fine typography is inducive
to lasting appreciation of literary style,
but l cannot conceive of that psyche
logical phenomenon. an author who.
while engaged in composition, brings
up before his mind the printed page or
newspaper column-especially when
he has usually very little idea of the
particular market his work will find.
Equally proftless would it be for me
to contend that the newspaper. or
that distinctive portion containing
special articles issued as a supplement
qualities from beginning to end as
magazine. The conditions OF produc-
ton and the demand which the Sunday
newspaper is made to supply prevent
that, but l do contend that many of
the articles in each issue of Sunday
newspaper are of true literary value.
They are printed because of their in
terest; and that vague thing, literary
form, in itself is sufficient to justify
publication; hence the newspaper
reader is saved from that aff1iction of
platitudinous pleonasm which fire.
quently leaves the magazine reader in
a state of bewildermeEt when he has
finished reading some of the articles
that appear almost every month.
Newspapers are accused of printing
too many frivolous articles, just as
theatrical managers are blamed for
giving light, catchy entertainments in
meet the popular demand for amuse-
ment in a greater degree than instruc-
ton. Newspapers are also accused of
printing articles containing statements
which are not matters of fact Mag
azines never do that! oh, never! Well,
hardly ever! Scri Magazine of
last Noven her devoted some eighteen
pages to alleged Conversations and
Opinions of Victor Hugo" which made
that most spectacular of modern cranks
so ridiculous that the shade of Louis
Napoleon must have been merry FOR
month. It was not long before it was
discovered that the diary from which
the inject matter of the article was
taken was fraud on Partisan dealer
in autographs-but magazines are SO
careful!
It is only necessary to point to the
long list of men eminent in every walk
of life = literature, craftsmanship
science. art and affairs of all kinds
in proof of the resources of news
paper sy Indicate. Every issue of mag
azine gives evidence that it is seeking
popularity by adopting newspaper
methods. The Strand Magazine, of
London, which has gained phenome-
nal circulation in short period, is
virtually the Sunday supplement of
ncwspap per issued in magazine form
The Review of Reviews, another very
successful monthly, is journalism pure
and simple. The Century is never done
Boosting of the great impetus given to
its circulation by its war papers That
feature was simply journalism, and
the Century merely followed the I
Philadelphia Weekly Press in get J
ting those papers The Weekly Press =,
had done it for two years before the
Century" started in, and obtained ar
ticles from almost every prominent |
general in the Century list. The War
Papers were journalism. Some other
things, of which the Century does not |
boast, were literature. The Life of |
Lincoln was neither. And what has
Mr.. Glider to say Of his exposure" of |
the Louisiana Lottery as compared
with the exposure" made by the So
called sensational newspapers? Yet |
that article is one of the proudest
feathers in his cap.
The Sunday newspapers, by means OF
the syndicate, are invading the terri
tory of the magazines, but the multi
plication OF readers is good for both and
the magazine editor makes a mistake
in deprecating the Sunday newspaper.
The last line of attack should be that
the men who make Sunday newspapers
have not the literary appreciation
which goes to the making of maya
zine, or that writers for syndicates do
not possess literary capacity, because j
know of some eminent magazine
writers VINO took up literature because
they failed in journalism.
JAMES O. c. DUFFY,
Sunday Editor, Philadelphia Press