No doubt he's the man, if some capitalist would join him.'
'No enormous capital needed,' opined Mr Quarmby. 'The thing would
pay its way almost from the first. It would take a place between
the literary weeklies and the quarterlies. The former are too
academic, the latter too massive, for multitudes of people who
yet have strong literary tastes. Foreign publications should be
liberally dealt with. But, as Hinks says, no meddling with the
books that are no books--biblia abiblia; nothing about essays on
bimetallism and treatises for or against vaccination.'
Even here, in the freedom of a friend's study, he laughed his
Reading-room laugh, folding both hands upon his expansive
waistcoat.
'Fiction? I presume a serial of the better kind might be
admitted?' said Yule.
'That would be advisable, no doubt. But strictly of the better
kind.'
'Oh, strictly of the better kind,' chimed in Mr Hinks.
They pursued the discussion as if they were an editorial
committee planning a review of which the first number was shortly
to appear. It occupied them until Mrs Yule announced at the door
that supper was ready.
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