The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-26

hero made a great bit with his employers and Sc
same manner the author himself did several years
ago
Besides writing novels. Mr. Phillips devotes much
Of his time writing special articles for the maya
zines. He has for some years made miilonaires
special study, and his Confessions OF a Croesus."
on which he is now working Is story which he has
based very considerably on facts In the current
number Of Success, Mr.. Phillips gives a study Of
terest 10 book readers since In large measure. the
men who make our magazines are the same men who
publish our books
Instead of looking into a popular paper, book or
magazine" writes Mr.. Phillips. Ito what vul-
garties made il so popular, the writer and critics
who appeal from their own 90 remote future gen
Grafton might learn something II they would look
into that paper, book or magazine 20 see If there
isn't something there some bold sweep OF the great
chord of universal human nature which has caused
popularity i'm spite Of the vugarity."
Americas revolt expressed In cheap and popular
newspapers ana magazines grew out of the very
cessities Of her condition great democracy must
be educated, ana great democracy Graves educa-
ton. IL cannot read what il cannot understand: it
cannot understand what is deliberately addressed 10
TO few and interests a Few only interesting them
often because they fancy that Interest in what is
above the heads of the masses Is mark Of SUPERIOR
~ ont OF the need or education out OF the demand
for education grow the high school of cheap newspa-
pers and the college and university Of cheap popular
magazines.
American newspapers and magazines not even in
the old days when the ueWness Of shaOWness of cul
ture caused many avowed minor writer's to employ
the Alterations of involved style and a muddy
cloudy thought were never characterized by the pa
titudinous vqvnesome u0nder0usness which Ieadens
Blitain and the continent We did deeply adj
mire classes and reverence. We were always dis
posed suspect that the stuff that clings
homes is of the consistency the stun Of which
stars and all things really or reputedly high are
made. We never did buy many newspapers or maya
zines books TO have something 10 sleep over and
to give us intellectual caste. We ready, even
impatient for illustrated newspapers and illustrated
magazines when they came II the EdenbOro or the
Quarterly, when it can't get such word pictures a
Sidney Smith, Macauley a. De Quincy could
paint would supply the lack with pictures how they
would Tighten the dreary pages of matter that is
highly Informative, but extremely difficult TO read I'm
the pretentious and povertystrclen language Of Mr..
Intellectual Nobody.
Here is a suggestion for the editors-in-chief of
some of our sO-called solid" magazines. / have in
mind one which can present an apparently almost
hawless title 10 being the oldest of serious Pc
riOdicals-and in its early days 1t was with a bril-
liant relapse now and them mighty serious mat
ter. 1t never smiled if il could possibly avoid IT, 1t
resOlutely determined to convey Information i'm
a way which few cared about. Once in a while
real writer to have broken into it'-pOssbly
the dearth Of real writer's I'm part responsible
but in the main il was possessed by men whose
ideas hadn't caught up with their v0cabularies" as
ex-senator Jones Of Neveda would say.
Respectfully its chief claim TO consdera-
ton-respectabity plus occasional burst of almost
apologize timeliness of human interest Whenever il
became showed signs of becoming a magazine
worthy Of human beings while he i'm light
ming express that darts from etrenity eternity
human beings showed their appreciation By buying it,
Usually it remained unread and respectable NJ or
nament for the center table of an unused library"