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The Oxford and Cambridge, published by Bell and Daldy, was financially the responsibility of Morris, though Richard Watson Dixon was anxious to afford what help he could out of his small means; and, if three numbers to which Rossetti contributed be left out of account, it was Morris who gave it literary importance. All the same, the share Morris had it can be exaggerated. Before the appearance of the second number, February, 1856, editorial control was transferred to Fulford, who had salary of £ 100 a year, for the year the magazine lived. As for the contents, like those of every professedly artistic periodical issued in England, with the solitary exception of the Savoy in the nineties, they were too miscellaneous to point in any particular direction. Vernon and Godfrey Lushington; the sociological and political journalist Bernard Cracroft: the author does not know, and am but languidly moved to ask, what they were doing in the company of Morris and Rossetti.