The first number is bound to be a failure always, as far as the representative character goes.
It's invariably the case.

Look at the first numbers of all the things you've seen started.

They're experimental, almost amateurish, and necessarily so, not only because the men that are making them up are comparatively inexperienced like ourselves, but because the material sent them to deal with is more or less consciously tentative.

People send their adventurous things to a new periodical because the whole thing is an adventure.

I've noticed that quality in all the volunteer contributions; it's in the articles that have been done to order even.
No; I've about made up my mind that if we can get one good striking paper into the first number that will take people's minds off the others, we shall be doing all we can possible hope for.