Thirty years was a long tenure of office, one of the longest, in point of consecutively active editorship, in the history of American magazines.
He had helped to create and to put into the life of the American home a magazine of peculiar distinction.

From its beginning it had been unlike any other periodical; it had always retained its individuality as a magazine apart from the others.

It had sought to be something more than a mere assemblage of stories and articles.

It had consistently stood for ideals; and, save in one or two instances, it had carried through what it undertook to achieve.

It had a record of worthy accomplishment; a more fruitful record than many imagined.