Some of them were speciously unfavorable in tone; they criticised and even ridiculed the principles on which the new departure in literary journalism was based.

Others defended it; others yet denied that this rumored principle was really the principle.

All contributed to make talk.

All proceeded from the same fertile invention.
March observed with a degree of mortification that the talk was very little of it in the New York press; there the references to the novel enterprise were slight and cold.

But Fulkerson said: "Don't mind that, old man.