The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-18

Kendrick Bangs is about to become ed
| itor of the Metropolitan Magazine un.
| der It's new management; Bliss Car
men is just taking up work as editor
of literary magazine in Boston. In
deed most Of the editors of the lead
ing magazines are better known
through their editorial work The list
would include such men as Bliss Perry
Richard Watson Glider, Henry M. AL
den, William Dean Howells, Walter Fl
Page, Tudor jerks and dozen others
more or less well known. The num-
I Der of men who have at one time or
another been connected with publica-
tions in an editorial capacity and are
known solely as authors is also very
large. Leaving out those writer's of a
former generation, when, in fact, the
proportion was much larger than now,
we shall find the names of Winston
Churchill, Irving Bachelor, Mark
Twain, Sara Orne Jewett, Ida NJ Har-
bell, Booth Harrington, E. w. Town
send, Richard Harding Davis, John
Fox, Jr., Henry Van Dyke, Thomas
Nelson Page, Joel Chandler Harris and
many others now in the public eye.
The two professions are very closely
allied; doubtless the training in one fits
for the other.
rum EiSAdHu tHere comes the
news that Lord Rosebery is writing a
book on the American War for Inde-
pendence. Nothing is said as to the
character of the volume to be, but 1t
Is doubtless critical work on the his
torical side. There is, of course, much
to be written about the period. Not
until Mr.. Cualde III. Van Tyne publish
ed his 'Loyalists in the American Rev.
olution" last fall had 1t occurred to
anyone, apparently, that there was here
most interesting field for historical
writing. Mr.. Van Tyne's book threw
considerable light on the other side Of
the war and its times, the side
which Englishmen had perhaps
considered, but yet had not writ
ten much about. Americans had not
taken into account any sort of history
that did not deal with the period from
the side of the revolutionists.
Eden Phillpotts has completed a new
story called '"rhe American Prisoner"
which relates a romance of the moor
about Princetown in the time of the
War of 1872. Young Lieutenant Stark
from Vermont is the hero of the tale
and his Imprisonment and sufferings
in the Princetown war prison take up
a considerable part of the book. The
story is English yet 1t has a great
deal of interest for American readers.
1t is to appear serially in The Graphic
in England sometime this year and its
publication in book form will not be
made until late next fall.
The Mr.. Grassland who wrote 1.-THE
Unspeakable Scot" an act which is
sufficient to identify him, has written
a book on Fair Women" which will
be published in England and this coun-
try sometime during the spring. II ia
said to be of the same character as
his former book, and the women of
both countries may prepare themselves
for an attack of this bold writer.
One of the books really worth while
to be published soon Is Mr.. Joseph
Conrad's youth Its publication has
been postponed SO many times that the
work has been referred to as Eternal
Youth" but now that the publishers
in this country have definitely an
nounced the book for next month. its
claim to being eternal may vet have
to be proven. Mr.. Conrad has. in
some manner, come to be ranked along
with Stevenson, Meredith, Kipling and
writer's Of that class. He has been
writing for several years and thus far
six books have come from his pen.
The only work which he has pub
lished during the past two years save
a long drawn out description Of a storm
at sea under the title "Typhoon" is
one in which he elaborated with Ford
Hueffer. THE Conspirators" the story
was called, a story OF the fourth dimen-