"The magazines—Heaven knows they are bad! I should be the last man on earth to defend even the best of them. I have had my hand in making—I should not undertake to say how many; but I have never made one and I have never seen one made that was more than a respectable pile of debris beside the plan that it was first constructed by." — Walter Hines Page, editor of The Atlantic Monthly and World's Work, among other magazines, in a 1901 speech to librarians.
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January 24, 2013
A perfectionist magazine editor's lament, 1901
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