Our programme for the first number was to have been the following: 

TO-MORROW

Leader Persons and Politics Margot Tennant.

The Social Zodiac Rise and fall of
                      Professional Beauties Lady de Grey.

Occasional Articles The Green-eyed Violet Fane (nom-
                      Monster de-plume of
                                              Mrs. Singleton).

Occasional Notes Foreign and Colonial
                      Gossip Harry Cust.

Men and Women Character Sketch Margot Tennant.

Story Oscar Wilde.

Poem Godfrey Webb.

Letters to Men George Wyndham.

Books Reviewed John Addington
          
                                    Symonds.

Conversations Miss Ponsonby.

This is what I wrote for the first number: 

“Persons and politics

“In Politics the common opinion is that measures are the important thing, and that men are merely the instruments which each generation produces, equal or unequal to the accomplishment of them.

“This is a mistake.  The majority of mankind desire nothing so much as to be led.  They have no opinions of their own, and, half from caution, half from laziness, are willing to leave the responsibility to any stronger person.  It is the personality of the man which makes the masses turn to him, gives influence to his ideas while he lives, and causes him to be remembered after both he and his work are dead.  From the time of Moses downwards, history abounds in such examples.  In the present century Napoleon and Gladstone have perhaps impressed themselves most dramatically on the public mind, and, in a lesser degree, Disraeli and Parnell.  The greatest men in the past have been superior to their age and associated themselves with its glory only in so far as they have contributed to it.  But in these days the movement of time is too rapid for us to recognise such a man:  under modern conditions he must be superior, not so much to his age, as to the men of his age, and absorb what glory he can in his own personality.

“The Code Napoleon remains, but, beyond this, hardly one of Napoleon’s great achievements survives as a living embodiment of his genius.  Never was so vast a fabric so quickly created and so quickly dissolved.  The moment the individual was caught and removed, the bewitched French world returned to itself; and the fame of the army and the prestige of France were as mere echoes of retreating thunder.  Dead as are the results of Bonaparte’s measures and actions, no one would question the permanent vitality of his name.  It conjures up an image in the dullest brain; and among all historical celebrities he is the one whom most of us would like to have met.