Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-01-19

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the wretchodly small market that was
! open tO him. ] feet lh3t We OF inc press
! ent day have ample cause for thanks.
! giving.
In 1850 there We're but three maya.
! zines OF any lmplrtUucc-H arper's.
! The Century and The Atlanuc-and IL
! was mot until about that time that
! the ilrst named WAS forced bv the exc
! ample Of its most formidable rival. The
! Century into printing the Signature,
| Of its authors. Unless my memory
| fails me Mcleod of Dare was printed
| in tho carly part of this year without
! William Blacks name. THE Century
! was looked upon as the highest reward
| Of merit and the young writer who suc-
| ceede1 IN selling a story ar poem to
! this magazine was considered wen
! along On The road 90 fame
Between the magazines which offered
! little else but glory no. those who were
! not on The upper rounds of the ladder
| and the daily newspapers from which
! most 90 us gained our bread, there
! yaWnca O. wide gull dotted here ana
| there with such stepping stones as
] Puck Nild Oats Frank LcsIic's Week
/ ly Go which were added later the Me-
/ Clure ana Bachelor newspaper syudi-
| Gates Judge, Life and a. host 0f other
| growing periodicals. The gulf that
| yaWned between Park Row and the
| serene literary heights from which tho
| magazine editors ana contributors
! looked down upon as was indeed a wide
| one in those days and / used to fancy
! That ] could detect glance Of conscious
| superiority ON the face OF nearly every
| one of those "immurllls," and there
| were not more than forty Of them at
| uut Time.
They had but sC3nt reason for undue
| pride, Tor there was scarcely one OF
| them who made os much money as the
| best reporters, and even when they
/ developed from magazine hacks into
| noVelis's, their rewards were not much
! better Even the very best literary
| men ut the day Holmes. Longfell0W,
! Bryant Stedman ana Stoddard found
! i advisable 20 follow some other calling
| besides literature in order 90 provide
! themselves with the comforts and lux.
| urles oi NE
AS for the American dramatIst, he
! was simply am object of general lfdi-
| cule twenty years ago. When Julian
| Masnus ana Emile Lancaster actually
| succeeded IN selling Conscience to
! cara Morris, and when Bronson How
. HH't' ~ Nv 7rAt. A'.N on i'.hA'I f'AtI'
| An faImer ana Ausustln Daly bought
| play apiece from Edgar FaWcettsome
oil US tnought that the millennium was
/ at hand, but not one OF us could have
| store Tor certain American dr3matists
/ oi the year 1900 and thgeabouts.
lhe twenty years Just past have done
| more for the American literary man
| than the eighty that preceded them.
! And not the least among the many
! blessings which these two decades have
! bestowed is the invention OF the type
! writer which enables him 10 double his
! output without additional labor I'm
place of the three great magazines.
there are now az least half a hundred
/ periodicals that pay good prices. TO say
nothing OF the daily newspapers and
| particularly their sunday editions many
Of which print signed contributions
from the very best and most distin-
gulshHd writer's IN the world.
] have a firm belief In the better
ment of the literary mans condition
during the years that Die directly before
U.S. and that belief IS based on the pop
ularty of the one cent newspapers and
their five cent Sunday editions. They
are spreading the reading habit among
'lNHH'.M Illhl l'I ININII y AINu lNNlllllb Hlk
the bare ncWs of the day. and are add
INK every year to the enormous number
OF book buyers that our country boasts
Of.
The following letter which appeared In
the New York Evening Post recently
has caused something Ike a sensation
IN magazine circles
To the Editor Of the Evening Post:
Sir; VIII YOU be kind enough TO let
me explain IN your columns that the
novel entitled "The Congressman
WIFE which appears IN the January
number Of The Smart Set with my
name attached is NOT printpl as [
wrote II, ana IS published as 1t stands
against my protest? When IL came TO
me iu proof found that the editor. Mr
Arthur GrlssOm, had made an appalling
number II verbal changes, an unneces-
sary many trihing or silly several lu-
dicrous. two ntainng errors Of
speech, To- one instance the or-iual
phrase has been restored but the 1ther
CHANCES have AN been retained. some
OF them ! did not object to-ihey were
of $50 little consequence. ] did wonder
however why these should have been
made gt ALL Three or four seemed 90
me Co be Improvements, though the
language FIRST used had adequately cone
NDle1 f'f meaning Tho uu9llty Of tho
editing may Doe judged IRON this Ch9roc-
ters % young graduate OF Harvard, q
Northoner had remarked well, !
guess IT'S an over the editor made
him say. 1T looks like it's AN over
When / objected TO this phrase and To-
other phrases, Mr. Grissom declared
that he had merely edited the manu-
The Smart Set I then tried Co With
draw the story; but Mr.. GrIssom re-
fused TO give ii up.
JOHN j, BARRY
r. II. Russell has issued a large and
unique Benhardt souvenir This is a
departure Of the usual run OF the Rus
sell souvenirs In that 10 contains g6
pages with historical and critical
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