Scribner's Magazine

Scribner's Magazine

The first issue of Scribner's Magazine dated January 1887, volume 1, issue 1.
Editor	Harlan Logan (1936-1939)
Former editors	Edward Burlingame (1887-1914) Robert Bridges (1914-1930) Alfred Dashiell (1930-1936)
Staff writers	Edith Wharton Ernest Hemingway John Galsworthy Richard Harding Davis
Categories	Periodical, literature
Frequency	Monthly
Circulation	215,000 (year unknown) 70,000 (1930)
First issue	January 1887
Final issue — Number	May 1939 107
Company	Charles Scribner's Sons (1887-1937) Harlan Logan Associates (1938-1939)
Country	United States of America
Based in	New York City
Language	English
ISSN	2152-792X

Scribner's Magazine was an American periodical published by the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons from January 1887 to May 1939. Scribner's Magazine was the second magazine out of the Scribner's firm, after the publication of Scribner's Monthly. Charles Scribner's Sons spent over $500,000 setting up the magazine, to compete with the already successful Harper's Monthly and 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 many famous authors of that time, including John Thomason, Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris and Clarence Cook, as well as President Theodore Roosevelt.

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

Scribner's Magazine was the second periodical publication of the "Scribner's" firm, after Scribner's Monthly was published from 1870 to 1881. Scribner's Monthly was later moved to another publisher, and was renamed The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine.Charles Scribner announced to a New York Times reporter that they would make a new monthly publication "as soon as the necessary arrangements could be perfected". It was also announced that the editor would be Edward Burlingame, the son of Anson Burlingame, who was already connected to the publishing house as literary adviser. Charles Scribner also noted that the magazine would not be a revival of the formerly published Scribner's Monthly.Charles Scribner's Sons spent over $500,000 in launching Scribner's Magazine (the second of the Scribner's series), to complete with the already successful pictorials, Atlantic Monthly and Harper's Magazine. Edward L. Burlingame hired the best artists in his country for the magazine; Howard Pyle, Howard Chandler Christy, Charles Marion Russell, Walter Everett, Maxfield Parrish and Frederic Remington. Before the first issue was released, Charles Scribner's Sons had their first annual Scribner's Magazine dinner held at their main offices.Scribner's Magazine was launched in January 1887, the first issue of which was to be published from January to June of that year. The magazine was printed and bound by Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company.Scribner's Magazine was also the first magazine to introduce color illustrations later on. The first issue opens with the literary article "The Downfall to the Empire." by E.B. Washburne, the former minister to France. An early morning fire on the Charles Scribner's Sons offices heavily burned the third and fourth floors the home of which the Scribner's Magazine was made in 1908. In May 1914, the magazine's editor, Edward L. Burlingame retired and Robert Bridges took over as editor of the publication. (Bridges was a lifelong close friend of President Woodrow Wilson ever since the two had met as students at Princeton University.) During the first World War, Scribner's 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. On the date of November 19, 1922 the first editor of the magazine, Edward L. Burlingame died. On January 1928 the magazine had a change in format, with the first of the newly formatted issue having a cover design by Rockwell Kent. The June issue of 1929 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: