The farmer and mechanic., 1906-10-30
UNCLE RE,MUs,s MAGAzINE.
At Last We Arc to Have a Real Naga-
zine in the South That Wili BE
the Equal of The Best
in America.

Atlanta, Ca, Oct. GA matter of
general interest to the literary world
is contained in the announcement of
the approaching publication in this
city of a new monthly magazine which
Will be edited by Joel Chandler Har-
ris, better known to thousands Of
American readers as Uncle Remus. 1T
Will be called Uncle Remus's Magazine
Monthly literary magazines in the
South have been numerous. Early
failure has been the fate of II 2arly all
Of them because they have been lack
ing in scope, being arbitrarily and de-
family local; have been lacking in
national literary figure at the head,
one who possessed not only editorial
ability but prestige in the world of
letters and have not had adequate
financial backing or competent bust
ness management
The new venture in which the lit
|erary hopes of the South are centered
viii start with none of those handi-
caps.
The project will have the backing
of $500. 600, the list of stockholders in
the corporation embodying the names
of some Of Atlanta'S wealthiest most
alert and most enterprising business
men A fOur-StOry building is being
put up to accommodate the maga-
zine, which Will be turned out from
one of the most complete plants in
the country. The finest and the second
largest ma gaZine press ever construct
ed in America is being built for the
corporation by CottreH, and the rest
OF the mechanical equipment VIII be
lon the same scale.
It is not to be a Southern magazine
except in that in being an American
magazine it Will appeal most strongly
| To those at the South. It is being
planned on a scope that will rank it
| Immediately with the leading literary
monthlies of the country. In the for
| NAL announcement now being pre-
pared for publication by Mr.. Harris
| the ideals Of the magazine and the
lplans for achieving them will be set
| forth in detail. The announcement
/ Will prove Of general interest. 1t VIII
develop new ideas in an old field
The magazine will be unique just as
Mr. Harris is unique in American let
| tiers Bearing in its every feature the
| hallmark of his personality, it prom
Uses to be a distinct addition To Amer
| lean literature Mr.. Harris Will be
editor not in title only but in abso-
lIute authority over every department
| of the magazine.
| As a writer of folk tales Joel Chan1-
Ter Harris is known in every civilized
country in the world. His Uncle
| Remus and B'rer Rabbit stories have
! been translated into every language
| that is set in type As a novelist he
thas achieved reputation second 10
/ none in the South. His name as an
/ editorial writer for The Atlanta Con-
stitution for twenty years is one of
the most brilliant in American journal
/ ism As a poet he IS known 10 q few
/ l0f the cognOScenG.
I But as an editor. in complete charge
+ of such magazine as this projected
those who know him best believe that
his greatest 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, patrician or
plebeian, he has gripped more strongly