Books must be placed where the public can readily get at them.

It will not, of its own volition, seek them.

It did not do so with magazines; it will not do so with books.
In the meanwhile, Bok's literary letter had prospered until it was now published in some forty-five newspapers, One of these was the _Philadelphia Times_.

In that paper, each week, the letter had been read by Mr.Cyrus H.K.Curtis, the owner and publisher of _The Ladies' Home Journal_.

Mr.Curtis had decided that he needed an editor for his magazine, in order to relieve his wife, who was then editing it, and he fixed upon the writer of _Literary Leaves_ as his man.