The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 / April 1906
Nothing is a success until it is a proved success. The ideas that seem best frequently turn out the worst. If it were not for this fact, a fact with which we are thoroughly familiar, we should feel that we have in The Scrap Book the hit of a century. Indeed, it is difficult not to let ourselves go a bit, even now, and talk about this new creation in magazine-making in a way that would sound like high-pressure fiction.
Six weeks ago The Scrap Book was nothing but an idea. It had had a good deal of thought in a general way, but nothing effectually focuses until actual work begins. Filmy, desultory thought, in cloudland, counts for little.
In the early conception of The Scrap Book it was as unlike this magazine as a mustard-seed is unlike the full-grown tree. Rebelling as I did, and still do, at the restraints of the conventional magazine, and realizing the added strength that should come from the rare old things and the best current things—the scrap bits that are full of juice and sweetness and tenderness and pathos and humor—realizing all this, I undertook to incorporate in Munsey's Magazine a department which I intended to call The Scrap Book.
I had special headings and borders drawn for this department, with a view to differentiating it from other parts of the magazine. I had sample pages put in type, and more or less work done on the department. But it did not fit Munsey's Magazine, and Munsey's Magazine gave no scope for such a section. It was atmospherically antagonistic to a magazine which consisted wholly of original matter. This was the beginning of The Scrap Book—the thought nebula.
It was as late as the middle of January when I came to my office one morning and startled our editorial force by saying that The Scrap Book would be issued on the 10th of February. Up to this time no decisive work had been done on it. As I stated in my introduction last month, we had been gathering scrap books from all over the world for some time, and had a good deal of material classified and ready for use. It was an accepted fact in the office that The Scrap Book would be issued sooner or later. Indeed, the drawing for the cover was made more than a year ago. But no one on the staff, not even myself, knew just what The Scrap Book would be like or when it would make its appearance.
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THE SCRAP BOOK.
IS THE RICH YOUNG MAN HANDICAPPED?
TO TEACH TRADES TO YOUNG WORKERS.
A COLLEGE CAREER—IS IT WORTH WHILE?
ATHENIAN CULTURE IS AMERICA'S NEED.
NOTABLE NEGLECT OF INDUSTRIAL ARTS.
BELGIAN DRAMATIST CRITICIZES NEW YORK.
WHAT "PUNCH" HAS MEANT TO ENGLAND.
THE OLD JOURNALISM COLORED BY THE NEW.
HOW TO ASSIMILATE THE BEST IN BOOKS.
ARE WE SURFEITED WITH WIT AND HUMOR?
WOMAN'S REAL PLACE IN LITERARY WORK.
RACE SUICIDE MAY PROVE A BLESSING.
WORTH WHILE TO LIVE IN A LARGE CITY.
MAKING MONEY IS A RELIGIOUS DUTY.
LET DOCTORS TELL WHAT THE MATTER IS.
FOOD AS A PRIME FACTOR OF CHARACTER.
DR. W.S. RAINSFORD A FORCEFUL FIGURE.
LESSONS THAT MAY BE LEARNED FROM BIRDS.
CHINA IS SEEKING WESTERN LEARNING.
QUEEN VICTORIA'S ROMANCE.
LEIGH HUNT AND HIS MARIANNE.
THE KINGLY LOVE OF CHARLES I.
NAPOLEON TO HIS FIRST LOVE.
THE FIDELITY OF WASHINGTON.
BRIEF BUT SINCERE "OLD NOLL."
POE'S HEART IN A TIME OF TRIAL.
THE LOVE OF BISMARCK.
II.
III.
The Empire State of the Future.
Texas Now Leads in Railways.
The Land of Corn and Cotton.
What Statehood Will Mean.
The Growth of the Gulf Ports.
Galveston and the Panama Canal.
THE AHKOOND OF SWAT.
THE DYING SHOEMAKER.
I WANT TO GO TO MORROW.
FINALE.
THE WASHERWOMAN'S SONG.
RISE OF A CHORE BOY.
A Student of Fishes.
Selecting His Aids.
FATHER OF GERMAN STEEL.
FRIGHTENED JAY GOULD.
WORK WAS TOO EASY.
A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE.
HOW GARFIELD ROSE.
TURNED OVER BRICKS.
AN OIL KING'S START.
CAME BACK FOR MORE.
THE PIPE THAT FAILED.
ANCIENT, BUT IT GOES.
RILEY'S RYE PATCH.
IN A SHOE STORE.
AT NAPOLEON'S TOMB.
THE OTHER SIDE.
TIPS FOR AUTHORS.
HIS IMPOLITE QUERY.
ARTEMUS WARD'S ADVICE.
LOST.
IT WOULD NOT "DOWN."
LABORERS WERE PLENTIFUL.
FEMININE ARITHMETIC.
FAR IN THE FUTURE.
CRUSHED.
IN A STREET CAR.
THE IVY GREEN.
THE CHURCH PORCH.
BARUCH DE SPINOZA (Holland—1632-1677).
RENÉ DESCARTES (France—1596-1650).
SIR ISAAC NEWTON (England—1642-1727).
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG (Sweden—1688-1772).
IMMANUEL KANT (Prussia—1724-1804).
FRANÇOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE (France—1694-1778).
HORACE WALPOLE, EARL OF ORFORD (England—1717-1797).
EDWARD GIBBON (England—1737-1794).
SIR FRANCIS DRAKE (England—1540-1596).
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (Germany—1770-1827).
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (United States—1807-1892).
SAMUEL JONES TILDEN (United States—1814-1886).
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ON THEIR LOST LOVES.
ANNABEL LEE.
VIA SOLITARIA.
BLANCHE BATES BALKED.
To Teach or Not to Teach.
Too Good for Daly's.
MILLER'S STAR OF DESTINY.
STORM FOR MISS RUSSELL.
MEDAL SET MANTELL GOING.
GILLETTE DESERTED LAW.
Success Follows Failure.
BELLEW WAS A SAILOR.
SIR ECTOR TO SIR LAUNCELOT.
INGERSOLL'S EULOGY.
THANATOPSIS.
In Nature's Wilds.
THE OLD ENTHUSIAST.
THE BOY WHO KEEPS THE BATS.
CASEY AT THE BAT.
The Empire State Express.
Fast Time to Atlantic City.
The World's Largest Station.
Good Road-Beds Abroad.
Europe's Fast Averages.
EVOLUTION.
Faults Are Impatience and Anger.
Traditions of the Month.