After a few months Messrs.

Doubleday, Page and McClure withdrew, and left the work of rescue to be performed by Mr.George Harvey, who, curiously enough, succeeded Page, twenty-one years afterward, in an even more important post--that of ambassador to the Court of St.James's.

The one important outcome of the Harper episode, so far as Page was concerned, was the forming of a close business and personal association with Mr.Frank N.Doubleday.As soon as the two men definitely decided not to assume the Harper responsibility, therefore, they joined forces and founded the firm of Doubleday, Page & Company.

Page now had the opportunity which he had long wished for; the mere editing of magazines, even magazines of such an eminent character as the _Forum_ and the _Atlantic Monthly_, could hardly satisfy his ambition; he yearned to possess something which he could call his own, at least in part.
The life of an editor has its unsatisfactory aspect, unless the editor himself has an influential ownership in his periodical.

Page now found his opportunity to establish a monthly magazine which he could regard as his own in both senses.