While struggling on, he gained the affections of the daughter of Mr. Willison, a well-known printer of Edinburgh. This connection seems to have arisen through the medium of the _Edinburgh Review_, which Constable published, and which Willison printed.[20] He discountenanced the match, but the young lady consulted her own inclinations, and the marriage took place soon after. The printer became reconciled, and gave his son-in-law considerable assistance; but the publication of the _Review_ was the chief means of Constable’s advancement, and his little shop gradually became the rendezvous of the learned of Edinburgh. After the failure of the publishing and bookselling company, John Ballantyne became a literary and art auctioneer in the Hanover Street premises. For this kind of work he was specially qualified; and he conducted it with marked success, particularly in the disposal of literary property. The auction rooms became a fashionable lounge. A periodical which he issued in connection with his business was called the _Sale Room_, written very much after the style of the _Spectator_. It was rather a dull concern, however, and had little success; although one of its numbers contained a humorous poem by Scott called “The Sultan of Serendib, or The Search after Happiness,” and another had an article by Lockhart signed “Christopher Corduroy,” which first drew Scott’s attention to that writer. The first number of the _Sale Room_ was issued on Saturday, Jan. 4, 1817, and contained the following introductory paragraph, presumably by John Ballantyne: