Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-29
An Unbiased Opinion.

In place of mirth they make me feel
quite sad.
think that Sherlock Holmes is idiotic.
While Lady Roses Daughter gives me
pain:
think the modern novels tommyrotic.
think the modern poet Is insane.
i cannot stand for" Crockett or for Bar
RE,
For Stevenson. or any of that bunch;
With Macterlinck l never can feel scarry.
To me his dreams are as dull as Punch.
| do not care for stuff that's sentimental.
wouldn't have a romance on my shelf;
But | do like-the choice is accidental
The prose and verse that | have done my
self.
Rochester Post Express.
No woman in America occupies Il
more conspicuous position in the world
of letters than Miss jeanette T.. Glider,
the editor OF Il literary magazine, The
Critic a writer and one Woman who
has been able to live up to her ideals of
achievement. The sketch of Miss Gill
der tells that at ten years of age she
made up her mind 10 become Il printer
and that after the Civil War she be-
gan at $40 a week to collect material
for MI Jno. Y. Fosters History of
New Jersey Troops During the War"
Later she worked at the Philadelphia
mint, where her comrades did her
share of the work while she whistled,
sang and spun yarns for them. At
seventeen she worked on the Newark
Register and reported for the New
York Tribune from that city. She
worked three years before the editor,
l,.,t
she was Il woman. Then he bounced"
her because ''he thought he couldn't
trust woman she tells to this day.
Her next venture and into her chosen
field was that of book reviewing for the
New York Herald. she earned the $50
with which she and her brother Mr..
Joseph r. Glider, brought out the first
number of The Critic and Miss Glider
did all the advertisements and news
work. 1t had business ups and downs,
but its literary quality was at once
recognized and sustained, and enlisted
a notable list of contributors, among
them James Lane Allen before he had
won fame.
At present Miss Glider is sole editor
of The Critic, as Mr.. Joseph Glider has
spends her long vacations abroad, and
tine Lounger" has been sending back
stimulating letters to the magazine.
Eut Miss Glider is not only Il news
paper woman and literary editor. She
has written Il novel, Taken by
Siege" several plays, ard THE Tom
boy" brought out within the last few
years, and which is autobiographical.
Miss elders greatest achievement is
the position and weight that her criti
cism upon literary affairs has in
America and England. There is not
another woman in public life who is 50
freely granted the attributes that dis
tnguish Miss Glider, breadth and SAN
ity of view, sinSleness of purpose, Il
generous eagerness for the success Of
others and Il dignity that is really as
gentle as impressive. Miss Glider is
best remembered at her desk-a blaz-
ing fire, books, pictures and many
autograph portraits of distinguished
men and women, who are proud Of her
friendship.
The Boston Literary World gives
the following account by George AIDE of
Tue manner III NI4tH It came W WlIlc
his fables.
IT 1890 having risen to a weekly in
come of $15. / lit out for Chicago. where
[ got Il job on The Morning News,
later The Record, rs d reporter. The
following year | had pretty good as
sIgnmcnt@, and 1893. ! did special
Worlds Fair stories. When the fair
closed up | became the father of Il de-
partment in the paper called stories
Of the Street" l had to fill two col
umns every day, which with cut or
two meant from twelve hundred to two
thousand words My stuff was next to
Eugene Fields "Sharps and Flats"
When Field died | got his desk. | used
to get desperate fof ideas sometimes
one lucky day | wrote Il story on Il
church entertainment in which Artie
was the spokesman. That was in 1895.
l heard from that story so much that
Artie WAS given Il show once a week.
In 1895 | ran up against the fable of the
old Serio-cOmic form. | had learned
from writing my department that all
people, and especially women, are more
or less fond of parlor- slang. In cold
llo')i l DtSdH NllliHS tl-c lipItS 10
make my department go, but | had no
idea that those fantastic things would
catch on as they have. My first one
was entitled The Blond Girl who
Married Il Bucket Shop Man" Soon
other papers asked permission to copy
the fables. and then to share them with
The Record, and by and by pub
Usher collected them and made up a
copyrighted book There you have the
whole thing in a nutshell.
An English writer says that J. NJ.
Barrie mas made more money as an
author than has any other contempor-
airy novelist. That is doubtful. In ag-
gregatc sales no three of his novels
equal the sales of "David Harum,' and
are novelsts in both England and
America whose profits from fiction are
probably greater than his. Rut if COM
bined receipts from fiction and plays
are meant. he may have made more
money than any other contemporary
novelist. As dramatist, Mr.. Barrie
has been remarkably successful with
The Professors Love Story" THE
Little Minister and other productions. !
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