New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-30
SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE
The Twenty fifth Anniversary OF
It's Birth.

The Twenty fifth Anniversary OF
It's Birth.
The completion of the twenty fifth year
OF the publication Of "Scribners Maya
zine" and the beginning Of its fifty-frst
volume call for congratulations to all
| concerned in it's making and for heart
| TEST wishes for the continuance OF the
signal success which it has won from
the day of it's first appearance, and
which it has so ably and honestly won.
! The youngest OF our "old" magazines
"Scribner's" entered the field at-a time
when competition, II quantitativeiy far
less intense, was qualitatively far more
serious. that II succeeded at once In
! forcing full recognition for itself by the
side of its admirable seniors, that 1t
convinced the smaller public for periodi-
/ cal literature of a quarter of century
ago. not only that there was room for 1t
I'm the field but that 1t had In many
ways a field Of its own to fll-that 1t
was not merely still another high class
monthly-was achievement enough 1T
! first. But its editors and publishers did
far more. They succeeded and have
continued to succeed, among many
changes of public taste in convincing
the reading world Of the virtues Of its
| basic policy Of combining belles-lettres
and the field of art with the literature
of knowledge and both with entertain
ment For "Scribner's" has never been
| known to be dull-"heavy" is the adjec-
tive used by preference In this connec
ton.
In a separate section Of it's January
number the magazine recounts some Of
the greatest achievements Of its as yet
young life. George Meredith, James
Matthew Barrie-who. in remembrance
Of the "Kailyard" enthusiasm, should
perhaps he placed first here-Robert
Louis Stevenson, Edith Wharton, 90"
and John Fox, jr., are among the nov
elists whose fiction first appeared In It's
pages Still more profitable is IT. in this
day of the decadence of the American
short story in its multitudes, to remem-
Der that "Scribners" has succeeded in
maintaining high its tradition in this
pre- eminently American field Of art, that
after Harte and Stockton Cable and Joel
Chandler Harris. Henry Cuyler, Bunner,
Henry James, Mrs. Burnett and many
among the younger writer's, Alice Brown,
Mrs. Wharton in her true field, James
3. Connolly. Robert Herrick, Jesse Will
Jams, Josephine Daskam Bacon and
Richard Harding Davis, a sterling artist
at his best. And of the company of
pages are Kipling and Mrs. Humphry
Ward, Anthony Hope and f. w. Hor-
nung, mention of whose name and Raj
fies" invites to enumeration Of the more
purely popular fictionists whose work
the magazine has presented TO its read
ers.
Among the biographies and reminis-
cences that have first been published in
its pages may be mentioned the late
Senator John Frisbe Hoars autobiog-
the Thackeray letters and those of Gem
eral Sherman, General Sheridan's remi-
niscences of the Franco German War.
LOwelPs letters to Poe, Stevenson's and
John Bancrofts letters, and those stage
"reminiscences Of which "Scribner's'
makes an occasional and invariably well
chosen feature
In other fields one finds in these fifty
completed volumes Mr.. w. C. Brownells
ever fresh and just and delicately dis
eliminating French Traits" and. in the
realm OF enduring literary criticism, his
victorian" and American Prose Mas
tiers" The late Professor Walter
Wyckoff first published here his studies
Of 1.-The Workers; Mr. Price Golfers
England and the English" is still too
fresh III the memory to require more
than a simple mention. Roosevelt the
historian and Roosevelt the hunter are
both here; so il Ernest Thompson Seton
with the story that made his fame, and
many others. Henry NJ Stanley stands
side by side with Edward Whymper and
Sir Martin Conway, and the list Of occa-
sional contributors includes such names
and regulations as those OF William
Dean Howells, Augustine Birrell, Joseph
Chamberlain. Austin Dobson, Andrew
Lang, Jacob A. Riis, Woodrow Wilson,
Lord Dufferin Cavendish and Sir Henry
Norman 1t was "Scribner's' also that
published serially Captain Mahan's war
of 1872"
1t may not be amiss to recall, In con-
clusion, the pioneer work done by this
magazine I'm the field OF color printing
the first colored illustrations published
In an American magazine having ap-
peared In its pages. or the quality of
The work Of its artists nothing need be
said, it Is so widely and so fayorablv
known; but a word Is duo 10 the cover
designed by the lats Stanford White.
with its bold massing Of the title at the
top. which has since been so generally
followed by others. "Scribncr's" has
maintained the standard which IL set for
itself from the first, but 1t has also sue