The provincial press of Great Britain num bers many influential organs, foremost among them being the Mancheser Guardian, the Liver pool Post, Birmingham Post, Newcastle Daily Chronicle, the Scotsman, Freeman's Journal (Ireland), etc. They have enormous circula tions and cover wide districts, besides which all the London papers are rushed to every part of the United Kingdom by special trains eadi morning. It is only during recent years that British journalism has dropped the veil of anonymity which hid the identity of writers. In many cases, of course, it was well known who wrote certain articles on certain papers. Thus all the world knew that the Times repre sentative in Paris was the great Blowitz; that "Dagonet" of the Referee was — and still is George R. Sims, that "Toby, M. P.," was Sir Henry Lucy, etc. In one particular respect the British Press differs considerably from the American. No British paper — or contributor — would ever think of copyrighting small, amusing trifles or "specials" regularly written under a real or assumed name. One very rarely sees anything marked "copyright" in the British press; it would have to be something very important indeed to deserve that distinc tion, or have been written by some great per sonage, in which case (Kipling frequently) it is marked, "Copyright in the United States." It can be said without fear of contradiction that British journalism is on the whole the purest institution of its kind in existence. Its devotees with very few exceptions aim to find out the true state of facts, to report them with fidelity, to apply to them strict and fixed prin ciples of justice, humanity and law; to inform, as far as possible, the very conscience of the nations, and to call down the judgment of the world on what is false, or base, or tyrannical.
Bibliography.—Andrews, A.,