Scribner's Magazine

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Not to be confused with Scribner's Monthly.

Scribner's Magazine was an American periodical published by the publishing house of

The Atlantic Monthly
. Scribner's Magazine was launched in 1887, and was the first of any magazine to introduce color illustrations. The magazine ceased publication in 1939.

The magazine contained many engravings by famous artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as articles by important authors of the time, including John Thomason, Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris, Clarence Cook, and President Theodore Roosevelt.

The magazine had high sales when Roosevelt started contributing, reaching over 200,000, but gradually lost circulation after World War I.

History

The first issue of Scribner's Monthly

Scribner's Magazine was the second periodical publication of the Scribner's firm, after

First World War, the magazine employed authors, Richard Harding Davis, Edith Wharton and John Galsworthy, to write about the major conflict. During the time of 1917, when the United States joined the war, the magazine had four to six articles on the subject.[3] On the date of November 19, 1922, the first editor of the magazine, Edward L. Burlingame, died. In January 1928 the magazine had a change in format, with the first of the newly formatted issue having a cover design by Rockwell Kent.[4]

The June 1929 issue was banned in Boston, Massachusetts, due to the article A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. The article was deemed salacious by the public, and Boston police barred the magazine from book stands. Charles Scribner's Sons issued the statement that:

The very fact that Scribner's Magazine is publishing 'A Farewell to Arms' by Ernest Hemingway is evidence of our belief in its validity and its integrity. Mr. Hemingway is one of the finest and most highly regarded of the modern writers.

The ban on the sale of the magazine in Boston is an evidence of the improper use of censorship which bases its objections upon certain passages without taking into account the effect and purpose of the story as a whole. 'A Farewell to Arms' is in its effect distinctly moral. It is the story of a fine and faithful love, born, it is true, out of physical desire.

If good can come from evil, if the fine can grow from the gross, how is a writer effectively to depict the progress of this evolution if he cannot describe the conditions from which the good evolved? If white is to be contrasted with black, thereby emphasizing its whiteness, the picture cannot be all white.

A dispatch from Boston emphasized the fact that the story is not an anti-war argument. Mr. Hemingway set out neither to write a moral tract nor a thesis of any sort. His book is no more anti-war propaganda than are the Kellogg treaties.

The story will continue to run in Scribner's Magazine. Only one-third of it has as yet been published.

— Charles Scribner's Sons, as issued in 1929[8]
Wounded soldier reader of Scribner's Magazine donated by the American Library Association in 1919

In 1930 the magazine's editor, Robert Bridges, retired to become a literary adviser for the firm, and associate editor Alfred S. Deshiell became the "managing editor" of Scribner's Magazine. By January 1932, the magazine had a second change in format, making it much larger. In October 1936,

one of the magazine's staff pleaded guilty to taking payoffs from the Japanese government, in return for publishing propaganda promoting United States isolationism.[9]

Contributors

The magazine was distinguished both by its images, which focused on engravings, and later color images by artists such as Leo Hershfield, Howard Christy, Walter Everett, Mary Hallock Foote, Maxfield Parrish, Ernest Peixotto, Howard Pyle, Frederic Remington, and Charles Marion Russell. The magazine was also noted for its articles, including work by Jacob Riis such as How the Other Half Lives, and The Poor in Great Cities, as well as Theodore Roosevelt's African Game Trails, John Thomason, Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris and Clarence Cook.[3]

Reception

Scribner's Magazine sold well until its conclusion in 1939. The circulation of the magazine went up when Theodore Roosevelt started authoring a section of the magazine. Around the time, circulation numbers went up to 215,000. The magazine had strong sales until the end of the First World War, then sales went down to 70,000 and then 43,000 by 1930, which eventually brought the magazine to a closure.

William T. Stead, criticized the magazine for relying too much on its illustrations.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Scribner's Magazine" (XQ). The Modernist Journals Project. Retrieved August 26, 2009.
  2. OCLC 1645522
    . Retrieved August 28, 2009.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Simkin, John. } "Scribner's". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved August 26, 2009. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "Charles Scribner's Sons: An Illustrated Chronology". 65 Olden Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 United States of America: Princeton University Library. November 8, 2002. Retrieved August 28, 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  5. OCLC 1590821
    . Retrieved August 26, 2009.
  6. ^ Washburne, E.B. Scribner's Magazine: 3. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ISBN 978-0-399-15921-3
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  8. OCLC 1645522
    . Retrieved August 27, 2009.
  9. ^ a b "Scribner's". St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. BookRags. 2005–2006. Retrieved August 28, 2009.

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