Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-03-11
MAGAZINE EDITORS.
Junius Henri Browne Says They Are often
 Misunderstood.
Especial CorrOSpondCnoc.l


 arc apt to be littlo understood and much abused class, if so small a number may Do ranked as a class. They arc not generally misunderstood or abused by professional writers, but by tho army of men and wom- on who arc anxious to writo and havo not learned how. These are promo to consider magazine editors as band of c0nspirators united for the single purpose of crushing their exubcrant genius. Tho professionals regard them as intelligent, cultured, ami able persons, placed in a position in which it Is impossible, with the best intentions, not to give offenso to the mass of declined contributors, or, in many cases, even to the accepted. Magazine editing Is a most difficult and thankless occupation and would worry the occupants into their graves If they did not, with certain de- gree of experience, become insensiblo to censurc and defamation. Only handful of editors arc known or exercise any influ- ence in literary circles and they nCcessa- rily tho editors of tho leading periodicals, less than a dozen, and all of them in the east. What manner of folks arc they? Let us see.
 The editor of Harper's Is Henry M. Al den, intellectual, scholarly, almost re- cluSe, seldom going anywhere, except tO the office and his own homo in ono of tho New Jersey suburbs. Nevertheless he has many friends somO ono of whom succeeds occasionally in detaining him in town over night and drawing him off to sOme form of entertainment. Ho is reputcd to be an excellent and catholic minded critic, and his opinion of a Ms. is very seldom gain said. Many persons think him eccentric because he is shy and rotiCcnt. but those we'll acquainted with him find him natu- lyfr has spent most of his life in tho service of tho Hampers, having been thoro nearly Ss years. With something of an oriental look, ho might bo mistaken for a mystic He may havo his ideal and philosophic dreams, but he never allows them to affect his practical judgment as an editor. Horace F.. Scudder has been the editor of Tho Atlantic for about four years, hay ing succeeded Thomas Bailey Aldrich. He has edited other periodicals, several works | and is tho author of seven or eight vol | umes of merit. Literary by temperament | and habit, ho has no other aims, no dis | fractions, and finds his exact place in his | present position. Born in Boston, he has lived there all his lifc-ho is 5i or o5 and his nativity would never be mis- taken.
 Ever since tho foundation of Scribncr's, some eight or ten years Git was tho result | of tho dissolution of tho old SCribner's | now Tho Century,, Edward l.. Burlin- | game, son of the noted politician and di- I plomatist, Anson Burlingamc, has bCcn | its edRor and has conducted 1t with marked ability. His task has bcEn hy no means light, having from tho start to com | pete with Tho Century, which had tho ad- | vantage of years, experience and prCStigc Many predicted failurc at tho outset. but BurlinGamos confidence in himself and the magazine has been fully justified by tho issuo, Its editor is pleasant, cntcrpris- | ing, industrious, pCrSevCring, buoyant, | and impartS his tOno to the periodical. l He succeeds bCcauso ho believes he will | succrCd. Hard as ho works, hc is not a | man of the closet, as Alden iS. but rCGrC- | atCS in tho outer air and rrliShvS good | cOmraiCry. HC k from Massachusetts ori ' inally, but has had a long apprenticeship l in the metropolis and iS about five and forty.
 Richard Watson Glider succCCdcd Dr. J. G. Holland as editor of SCribnCr's and aftcrward b,CAmC CditOr of Tho Century when tho magazine changed its name. He still retains tho place, as ho k likely t0. being n sharahuldVr in tho Century Pub fishing compauy. IlchaS much r,,putc as arurt. haNin: pgiut,,I. .Nvr,,l !, lumcS, and | fur!uv. T>s, s,ui.!.,- ,I .~t U!t.t'l' i' | AT" lis ,I.;!:,' h.. ,-t .iiiy a~ A ci;iz2n. l . Uiy d. la, L,sN.' Ideals Cl duty and | lS,JFi ;I,;.; E-,tricS }SC;yutiuU>,y tu carry | thClu out, a3I thus deserves well uf his | fellows Tar Cl:&v4SC frVCcatly made, that l.;CrIry IOyn a;H sO Car:l >> | in IhCil | prutvS~:vn = to CArv f,,r liJtlC ,lsI docS no; | apVl! tu him. llv spends a lar-,C V1Et oi his tiuo iH grCatly nvvlvd practical r> forms, and his CXamI!r sAuu,d excite emu | latiun. Whatever hC GO. k done Vuiltly. | He Is the antipOGCS of a pOSEur. He Was born in New Jersey, Is a son of a Baptist clergyman, began life as a journalist, is now 90 and Is thought to rcSCmblc the portraits of Paganini. His assistants on The Century aro Robert |. Johnson and Carlos C. Bucl, both capable and conScicn tious and courteous.
 Mrs. Mary Mapcs Dodge, editor of the St. Nicholas. also issued by tho Century company and rCn0wncd as n model juve nile magazine (it has swallowed half q dozen of its kindl, is naturally admired by all littlc folks, and nbundantly deserve: their admiration. She has childrCn and grandchildren of her own and loves every | youngStor in tho land, from baby to bis boy. Her various books of prOso and vCrst show her lCvo and intense sympathy with | tion does. Shc is plump and jolly, hel naturc bubblinG over with fun, despite the fact that hOr health is not strong, and that sho suffers much pain. To seC and heal her no one would suspect it. She would laugh in tho presence of death, and hel jokes would mako his bones rattlC while hc was poising his dart to strike.
 John BrisbCn Walker is noninally th, editor of Tho Cosmopolitan, bcing its own CT and financial conductor. but Arthur ShCrburnC Hardy, tho novelist and cX Cul lego professor. Is its actual editor. Ho 1. said tO like his new calling much better than his old, and hc is Well fitted to it. Ho is about 70. amiahlc, Srnial and ideal istic. Walter II. ragr, editor of Tho FO rum; Lloyd :. Bryce, Son-in-law of Ed ward Cooper, of The North American Re l view, and E. O. Flower of Tho Aroma Boston, arc all good fellows and cOmpe tent critics. Frank \. Munsey of Munsey': Magazine is most Cnterprising and sell confident, as .. .. Mcclure of McClure': is, and they both sCcm bent on success l All tho editors, even of the minor maga | zines arc very different from what they arI popularly thought to bG George William Curtis was in his youth of the tribe and . most delightful member. So William D | Howells was till rocently, and he is alway: considcrate and polite.
 To know this guild is to like thcm and to be on their side. They arc not indiffer ent, as is often said, to the struggles ana hardships of literary aspirants, but ar, generally in sympathy with them and anN ious to help them with kind words ant good advice, They cannot bc expected. o course, to adopt as their own the caus, of every tyrn who wishes, without capacity or culture. to shino in print. But they arc. on the whole, very patient and conSid erato even of these.
 JUNIUs HENrI BROWNE