I now began to question if I had any vocation that way, and, with the passing of the summer, I went back to literature and found a place on the old "Scribner's Monthly," now "The Century," under Dr.Holland, the most friendly of chiefs, and there I had as colleague Mr.Gilder, the present editor of the magazine.

The greatest mistake, from the business point of view, I have ever made was in leaving the collaboration with Dr.Holland..