XVIII
JARVIS certainly had matriculated in the school of experience, and he entered in the freshman class. He first wrote a series of articles dealing with the historical development of the drama. He took them to the Munsey offices and offered them to Mr. Davis.
“Did you intend these for Munsey's Magazine?”
“Yes. I thought possibly—”
“Ever read a copy of the Magazine?”
“No. I think not.”
“Well, if you intend to make a business of selling stuff to magazines, young man, it would pay you to study the market. What you are trying to do is to unload coal on a sugar merchant. This stuff belongs in the Atlantic Monthly, or some literary magazine.”
“Isn’t your magazine literary?”
“Certainly not in that sense. We publish a dozen magazines and this kind of thing doesn’t fit any of them. We entertain the public—we rarely instruct them.”
