He was also the first editor-in-chief of the literary journal The Bookman — he’s credited with creating the first bestseller list for books in America — but he also used the pages of The Bookman to provide The Adventures of Mabel with good criticism as “Harry Thurston Peck” and in other ways.
“Rafford Pyke” also had articles published in The Bookman, and Peck was known for using other writer aliases during his career.
The parallels here don’t actually come from the illustrated Mabel story, about a girl who gains the ability to talk to animals, but from author Harry Thurston Peck.
But while many writers’ pseudonyms are employed innocently, Peck was more advantageous.