He also turned over in his mind the wisdom of interrupting his line of progress with the Scribners, and in New York, and began to contemplate the possibilities in Philadelphia and the work there.
He gathered a collection of domestic magazines then published, and looked them over to see what was already in the field.

Then he began to study himself, his capacity for the work, and the possibility of finding it congenial.

He realized that it was absolutely foreign to his Scribner work; that it meant a radical departure.

But his work with his newspaper syndicate naturally occurred to him, and he studied it with a view of its adaptation to the field of the Philadelphia magazine.
His next step was to take into his confidence two or three friends whose judgment he trusted and discuss the possible change.

Without an exception, they advised against it.