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Show The Magazine Editor. jfl A correspondent of the New York Sun writes of the New York magazine editors. He declares .B that the New York magazine editor is "a hot-house hot-house product." The usual "culture is birth in a "literary" family, youth spent in a "literary" at- mosphere, education in a "literary" college, cub- 'JM ship, then sub-editorship, then editorship of a "literary" magazine, fellowship in a literary club. By this time he has come so near the "literary" lM great that all lesser mortals exist only through sufferance." JM Then he tells how these creatures turned down 'M Kipling, who "are the sons of the historic, paste 'M pot crew that turned Walt Whitman out of "lit- erary" doors, and the grandsons of the elegants 'H who killed Edgar Allen Poe." The writer must have a "literary" grievance against some of those "elegants." Others have had similar suspicions to those put forth !in the !S above as facts. The reason is that when wo turn tS to the editorial pages of these magazines there '9 Is, too often, disappointment that men so great 1H can write so small. H A confirmation comes in tho current North jH I si' ffimf American Review which has a chapter from Mark imWBSSKK. Twain's autobiography. In that Mark tells of a hHBhK furious turn down which ho received from Carle- 1hhHHh ton, the publisher, When he Mark was struggling HHHH up and had offored a book to Carleton. The pub- j jHn Usher insulted him, but Clemens waited and after 'IHIBR twenty-one years had the pleasure of having Carle- ir ilSHHBrl ton come to Wm' ater hQ had become a noted "llHg author, in Switzerland and making his apology. '41fllf "'I am suustautIally an unknown person, but 1 f liwHro have at least one distinction to my credit of such IHHHR' colossal dimensions that it entitles me to immor- ilfflnHH tality to-wit: I refused a book of yours, and for lIHIBIi this 1 stand without cmpetitor as the priz ass 411lHf We PuljlIsn tho foreSInS that it may be an -'11 Hfl encouragement to struggling authors. 1 ill BHBB Tho most etching books of late years have lm WHBmm some of them been turned down by these same i'lfl ffiHIHI magazine editors and publishers. Hi ffiHBHv " It is easy for a man to judge what he likes, ' MHp only a few mon can judge in advance what the |