“The travel article has had its day…. Said one of the leading magazine editors in New York to me in explanation of this: ‘Why, the simple fact of the matter is that the people who read the magazines are traveling so much more nowadays that the travel article no longer has the reason for existence which it once had. Before the means of travel were expedited as they are to-day people clamored for descriptions of foreign lands. Now, they go and see these places for themselves, and, as a rule, the average magazine reader is better informed on foreign travel than is the ordinary writer.’” — Edward W. Bok, in a February 1895 newspaper article.
Bok was the editor of the Ladies’ Home Journal and probably the best-known magazine editor of his time.
