And there was something in us! I tell you, March, that seven-shooting self-cocking donkey of a Beaton has given us the greatest start! He's caught on like a mouse.
He's made the thing awfully chic; it's jimmy; there's lots of dog about it.

He's managed that process so that the illustrations look as expensive as first-class wood-cuts, and they're cheaper than chromos.
He's put style into the whole thing." "Oh yes," said March, with eager meekness, "it's Beaton that's done it." Fulkerson read jealousy of Beaton in Mrs.March's face.

"Beaton has given us the start because his work appeals to the eye.

There's no denying that the pictures have sold this first number; but I expect the literature of this first number to sell the pictures of the second.

I've been reading it all over, nearly, since I found how the cat was jumping; I was anxious about it, and I tell you, old man, it's good.