Identifier: scribnersmagazin16newy (find matches)
Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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o have been to a great extentobvious (though it is proverbially easy to seethis after the fact) ; but when a year or twolater ~SIy. Scribner j^ersevered in publishingThe Eeveries of a Bachelor (1850) andDream Life (1851), by Donald G. Mit-chell, though his Battle Summer (1849)had not been a success, he began to showbeyond mistake the discrimination and faithin his judgments which mark the first rankin his profession. There is certainly noneed now, either on commercial or literarygrounds, to justify these two selections.Still more characteristically discriminatingwas his attaching to his growing list thebooks of Dr. Holland, beginning in 1858 withTimothy Titcombs Letter;:. For a longseries of years Dr. Hollands successive works,with their aggregate sales of many hundredsof thousands, proved the soundness of ^Ir.Scribners judgment ; while Dr. Hollandsown repeated testimony to the justice andwisdom of his publisher tlirough all this timehas been an especially pleasant memory tothe house.
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Charles Scribner, Senior An important part of the work of the firmearly began to take a direction in which Mr.Scribner was keenly and thoughtfully inter-ested both by conviction and taste — thepublication of theological and philosophicalworks, particularly of writers in his own (thePresbyterian) Church, but not by any meansof these alone. He brought to the houseduring the fifties the first of the long listwhich has since included an array certainlyremarkable in the history of a single publish-ing establishment—the works of the Alex-anders, of Dr. Bushnell, Dr. Hodge, Dr. H.B. Smith, among the older theologians ; ofDr. McCosh, Presidents AVoolsey and Porterof Yale, President Mark Hopkins, Dr. Shedd, Dr. George Park Fisher, Professor Phelps,Professor Shields, Professor Harris, Dr.Charles A. Briggs, President Schurman ofCornell, Dr. Newman Smyth, Dr. Marvin E.Vincent, President Har2)er of Cliicago, and somanj^ more who have illustrated the theologyand scholarship of the Evangelical c

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