The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-28

hopes of the south are centered will start
with none of those handicaps.
The project will have the backing OF
100000, the list of stockholders in the
corporation embodylng the names of some
of Atlanta's wealthiest. most alert and
most enterprising business men. A four
story building is being put up to ac-
commodate the magazine, which will be
turned out from one of the most COM
plete plants in the country. The finest
and the second largest magazine press
ever constructed in America is being
built for the corporation by Cottrell
and the rest of the mechanical equip
ment will be on the same scale.
Not to Be Sectional.
1t is not to be a southern magazine ex-
cept in that in being an American mag
azine it will appeal most strongly to
those at the south 1t is being planned
on a scope that will rank it Immediately
with the leading literary monthlies of the
country. In the formal announcement
now being prepared for publication by
Mr.. Harris. the ideals of the magazine
and the plans for achieving them will be
set forth in detail. The announcement
will prove of general interest. 1t will de-
velop new ideas in an old field.
The magazine will be unique just as
Bearing 1t in every feature the hallmark
of his personality, it promises to be u
distinct addition to American literature.
Mr.. Harris will be editor not in title
only but in absolute authority over every
department of the magazine.
Harris viii Be Dominant.
As a writer of folk tales, Joel Chandler
Harris is known in every civilized coun-
try in the world. His Uncle Remus and
B'rer Rabbit stories have been trans
lated into every language that Is set in
type As a novelist he has achieved q
reputation second to none in the south.
His name as an editorial writer for the
Atlanta Constitution for twenty years is
one of the most brilliant In American
journalism. As poet he is known to a
few of the cognoscenti.
But as an editor, in complete charge Of
such a magazine as this projected, those
who know him best believe that his great
est ability lies. He is close to the people,
he can sense their natures, he knows
what they want and what they need.
His writings go direct TO the heart of the
people, 1t would be hard to tell which
class patrican or plebeian. he has
gripped more strongly with his stories
and novels The tales of Uncle Remus
and the doings of B'rer Rabbit furnish
as much delight in the farmhouse as in
tinction for any sort of fiction.
He knows what appeals to the people.
and he is an memorable task-master in
holding to a standard Associated with
him will be a staff. each member of which
is in thorough sympathy with his aims
and his plans.
Formal announcement yet to be made,
will give the details of the new maya
zine 1t is known, however, that edi-
torials by Mr. Harris will each month be
the feature of the publication. Editorials
they are called for lack of a word. With
out the heaviness of essays, lacking the
Gallicism of the feuilleton, far removed
from the news of the day yet so, so close
to the world and its people. they might
almost be termed causerie plus GER
tain substance that makes them perma-
nent literature. The first of these is on
knowing Your Neighbors." Sort of a
homely title Sort of a homely piece.
Written in a style so exquisitely pure.
so exquisitely artless that Pater or Ste
venson would nj it see their peer with
the perfume of the jessamine in 1t, with
a gentle humor that provokes a smile and
causes a sigh-but 1t needs to be read.
It's no use trying to describe 1t.
RooseveIt's Tribute
Then one will understand more thor
oughly what President Roosevelt meant
when he recently said:
Georgia has done many things for the
Union, but she has never done more than
when she gave Joel Chandler Harris to
American literature.
There is not an American anywhere who
can read Mr. Harris stories-I am not
speaking at the moment of his wonderful
folk tales. but of his stories-who does