"Louis, now turned 15, continued his literary efforts with [Henry] Baildon in a new magazine venture, The Sunbeam, billed as an 'illustrated Miscellany of Fact, Fiction, and Fun, edited by R.L. Stevenson'. There was little "fun", but [rather] a long story by Louis called "The Banker's Ward", a rather dreary narrative of middle-class life. As if trying to please his father, the former author of lurid tales of adventure was now attempting to write in a more serious vein" (Hodges, Lamplit, Vicious Fairy Land, p.21).