Marion Crawford, Conan Doyle, Sarah Orne Jewett, John Kendrick Bangs, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Hamlin Garland, Mrs.Burton Harrison, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Mary E.Wilkins, Jerome K.Jerome, Anthony Hope, Joel Chandler Harris, and others followed in rapid succession.
He next turned for a moment to his religious department, decided that it needed a freshening of interest, and secured Dwight L.Moody, whose evangelical work was then so prominently in the public eye, to conduct "Mr.Moody's Bible Class" in the magazine--practically a study of the stated Bible lesson of the month with explanation in Moody's simple and effective style.
The authors for whom the _Journal_ was now publishing attracted the attention of all the writers of the day, and the supply of good material became too great for its capacity.

Bok studied the mechanical make-up, and felt that by some method he must find more room in the front portion.

He had allotted the first third of the magazine to the general literary contents and the latter two-thirds to departmental features.

Toward the close of the number, the departments narrowed down from full pages to single columns with advertisements on each side.
One day Bok was handling a story by Rudyard Kipling which had overrun the space allowed for it in the front.

The story had come late, and the rest of the front portion of the magazine had gone to press.