The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-13


extent true, but iMf@Gilder is too mod.
est by half. His work for more than
twenty years has shown his remarka-
i BILE genius and today the place the
Century holds as a great 1iterary-art
magazine is largely due to him.
= LIFE STORY OF AN EDITOR.
Richard Watson Glider is born edi-
tor. He was brought UP on printers
ink. His father, the Rev. w. H. Glider,
WAS an eminent clergyman, who varied
his ministerial and educational work
by writing 8for the newspapers, and
who was ait one time editor of the
Philadelphia Repository. Young Gill
der's boyhood was spent about the
printing office Of the Long Island
T Times, in Flushing. He learned to set
type long before he was in his teens.
His first composition was done when
he was so small that he had to stand
on the top of soap box to reach the
type cases. When he was twelve years
old he published at Flushing a boys
newspaper known as ''The st. Thomas
Register" and four years later he and
two other boys united in editing cam
paign Journal at Bordentown, N. J.,
in support of Bell and Everett for the
/ presidency. When he. was about
twenty he was a reporter on one of the
newspapers; of Newark, N. J., and later,
with a. young companion, Newton
Crane, started paper in Newark, I'm
der the title of The Morning Regis
ter" BY this time young Glider had
become somewhat known in literary
circles, and the Seribners made him
first an editorial writer, and then the
editor of their magazine known as
Hours at Home When Scribner's
l. Id ~
associate editor. in connection with J.
G.. Holland, and about the time that
the name of the magazine was chang
ell to- The Century" he was made,
at the death of DR.. Holland, editor-in-
chief Since then he has written for
it in poetry and prose, and today many
of the strongest of its editorials come.
| from his pen.
THE CHEAP MAGAZINE.
My chat with Mr. Glider covered a
| wide, range. L first asked as to the IN
| fuence Of the ten-cent magazine upon
iethose of higher prices. He replied:
"I suppose. it may have some effect
upon some of the high-prieed maya
zines, though how much do not know
The cheaper magazines and illustrated
| journalism have a place in the reading
CT the people of today, and that place
will not, I think, to any large degree
affect ouis.s Such publications are pos
sibIe through Nthe eiieapened processes
of printing and art reproductions
Certain grades Of such things have be-
| come so cheap that we seem TO be ap-
preaching the time when any man
may be his own author, editor and
| publisher. In the meantime, the finest
processes, the best pictures and the
best literature, cost more than ever.
At least our expenses in these respects
have been greater than ever BEFORE"
''Then L suppose the Century will
not reduce it's price," Mr.. Gilder?"
said l.
81 think not" was the reply. '"The
publishers have not thought of making
I any reduction"
/ COSTLY PICTURES.
| care, the, pictures of a magazine an ex-
pensiye element of it's make-up?'' L asked.
/ TT depends upon the magazine replied
Mr.. Glider. by the half-tone process a
photograph or sketch can be reproduced at So
much per inch, but the. finer methods of re-
production cost a great deal. With us the en-
| gravers must adapt themselves to the artists
| and not the artists to the engravers. We use
different methods with different pictures, Sc
Letting the ones which will bring out the best
art results without regard to cost If this
/ can be- done by engraving the picture is
| given to the engravers If by some other
| process we choose that AS to the cost of
| pictures, single illustration sometimes costs
| more than an article. We have paid as high
as three or foufs hundred dollars for a single
| Illustration We aim to have in every issue
/ at least one picture which will be worth more
| than the price of the magazine"
MONEY IN LITERATURE
'Can you. give me any idea of what maya
zines pay fSr their reading matter?'
Different magazines pay different prices
replied Mr:t Glider. The prices paid in the
Century office vary according to the value. of
| the article. to the reputation of the writer
| and to otter things. Some articles may not
cost more than So per thousand words, while