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

manuscripts before him. and often gives
the new writer's too much chance"
HOW MAGAZINES TREAT MANUSCRIPTS.
Do you mean to tell me that every man
uscript that GENES to the Office of the mod
ern magazine is opened and read?''
Yes. With US every article which is not
especially ordered by the editors is read,
and sometimes re-read, before it is sub
mitted to the chief editors. We have a
number of readers, and an article is some
times read by five different persons before
it is accepted. In some cases the article
may be of such character that the first
reader sees that it will not do for the mag
azlne, and it goes farther Articles that
are ordered especially by us generally come
to the editors without the examination Of
other readers. But at times the chief edi-
tors themselves are the first to look over
the new manuscripts"
Can man hope to make a living by
writing for the Magazines Mr.. ;Gilder?''
asked.
GA number of persons are now doing so,''
= WHY THE AMATEUR FAILS.
What advice would you give to a young
writer who is anxious to succeed %
To always write the very best that is in
him and to be never satisfied with anything
less than the best
What is the chief trouble with new writ
ers? Why do they not Iast?''
L think it is because they write chiefly
for the sake of getting their matter into
The amateur often seems to think hat If
his articles can be published that that Is
all that can be desired. He feels. also that
after he has had one or two such pub
lications,, the magazines are open to him,
and anything that he may write is good
enough to publish. So he dashes off some
thing and sends. it the rounds. Instead
of putting all the inspiration. study and
thought there is in him into his article to
produce a work of art instead Of keeping
the matter by him and working it over, he
off at I'm ole Of
content with mediocrity or at least with
much less than the best work that is in him.
ONLY FOUR PER CENT ACCEPTED.
aBut, after ALL Mr.. Glider only a very few
articles are accepted out of those which
the magazines receive
Yes was the reply ''that is true We
can use only between and per cent of the
articles which are sent to us. The manu-
scripts which annually receivel amount to
about 10000. We can print only about 400,
so you see we must reject many very good
articles. AS it is we buy more than we
should. There is. a neveT-ending temptation
to purchase new matter and the result is
that we have a great amount of literary
capital stored away upon the! payments for
which we receive no interest, and some of
which we shall never be able TO use''
A GREAT MAGAZINE FOUNDED.
'You have been with the Century since.
its beginning, Mr.. Glider; will you please
tell me how the magazine was started?'
What is called the Century Maya
zine," replied Mr.. Glider, was, during the
first ten years of is existence, known as
Scribners. Monthly. 1t was founded by
the Scribners, T. G.. Holland and Roswell
Smith. The idea originated with the Scrib-
illustrated monthly under the title of Hours
at Home. Then Mr.. Scribner proposed to
DR.. j. G. Holland that he should come to
New York and together they should found
a magazine. with illustrations. j. G. HoI-
land had Deen very successful as one of the
editors of the Springfield Republican, and
his books had had a very wide sale. The
Timothy Titeomlb letters, which first APP
peared in the Republican, had been pub
lished In book form by the. Scribners and
had had an eI'otnlaus circulation. Hob
lands Life of Lincoln had been very widely
read and so also had his poem Bitter
Sweet" When Mr.. ScriBner asked Dr. HoI-
land to JOIN him in the founding of a mag
azine, DR.. Hollond replied that he would do
so, provided Mr. Seribner would allow him
to choose partner. To this Mr.. Scribner
consented, and Dr. Holland chose Mr.. Res-
well Smith, VINO took third of the stock
and became the business manager of the
new enterprise. Before DR.. Holland died,
Mr.. Smith bought a large part of his stock
having already bought out the Scribner in
terest. The principal workers the mag
azine and On ST.. Nicholas also became stock
holders The of the magazine was
changed to the The Century,
SHOULD. MAGAZINES HAVE OPINIONS?
l here referred to the editorial features Of
the Century Tt Is. you know, the only mag
azine of the world which takes sides upon
leading questions and which aims to discuss
the great, movements IN art science soe-
ciety, politics and religion. asked Mr.
Glider where this feature OF the Century
originated. He replied:
There were editorials in the magazine from
the start. DR.. Holland had a. department. en-
titled Topics of the Time which Expressed
the opinions of the editor Upon things which.
were uppermost. We have the same depart
ment today.
Do you think such editorials have much
weight. Mr.. Gilder?'
II think that magazine Eks this can do