title: Vu: The Story of a Magazine
author: Cdric de Veigy
description: Represents the burgeoning of passion for photographic imagery that would affect human communication well into the futuresensational, graphic, beautiful, and horrifying<br /> - <strong><em>Rangefinder</em></strong>
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  # Fennel and Rue
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### William Dean Howells
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
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  The success of Verrian did not come early, and it did not come
  
  
  easily. He had been trying a long time to get his work into the best
  
  
  magazines, and when he had won the favor of the editors, whose
  
  
  interest he had perhaps had from the beginning, it might be said that
  
  
  they began to accept his work from their consciences, because in its
  
  
  way it was so good that they could not justly refuse it. The
  
  
  particular editor who took Verrian's serial, after it had come back to
  
  
  the author from the editors of the other leading periodicals, was in
  
  
  fact moved mainly by the belief that the story would please the better
  
  
  sort of his readers. These,