Edward W. Bok：The Americanization of Edward Bok, Additional Excerpt 638

Had it simply presented masterpieces of art as such, the series might have attracted little attention. But when it announced that these masterpieces had always been kept in private galleries, and seen only by the favored few; that the public had never been allowed to get any closer to them than to read of the fabulous prices paid by their millionaire owners; and that now the magazine would open the doors of those exclusive galleries and let the public in--public curiosity was at once piqued, and over one hundred and fifty thousand persons who had never before bought the magazine were added to the list.

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