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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY IS, 1916.

CONTENTS.-No. 20.

NOTES : 'The Standard,' 381 Lawyers employed by Win- chester College, 383 The Repulse of the Turks from Vienna, 385" Victoria County Histories " : a criticism Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in Serbia, 386 Epitaph in Brigstock Churchyard, Northants An All-Night Polling Polydore Morgan, 387.

QUERIES :-Greenhurst, 387-The Unities of Time, Place' and Action ' Philander and Sacharissa ' Old Family Church Livings Thomas Fuller : " Man is immortal till his work is done "Richard Dacres Robertsons and Dundases of Richmond, 388 Author Wanted Welling- ton at Brighton and Rottingdean Bishopsgate, Half- moon Street, Gothic Arch " Honest Injun " Hainrich Armorial Bearings Sought Robert Lucas d Peareall, Musical Composer "Severe" Author Wanted: the Lobster Edwin Edwards, Etcher Reference Wanted Elizabeth Beharrell A Church Bell at Farnham in Dor- set, 389.

BEPLIES : t. George Mumming Play, 390 Patrick Madan, 393-Illustrators of Goldsmith The Rabbit in Britain Countess of Huntingdon's Chapels, 394 Bad- cliffe of Leigh : Fazakerly. 395 Sir John Schorne : English Pilgrimages "Like the Dutchman's anchor, at home " Game Preservers and Bird Preservers': Morant 'David Copperfield,' 396 Handley Cross Bibliography of Spanish Literature. 397 Sir Robert Mansel The " Fly " : the "Hackney." 398 Freezing to Death Adjectives from French Place-NamesJohn Lewis, Dean of Ossory, 399.

NOTES! ON BOOKS : Virgil's " Gathering of the Clans '" ' The Burlington Magazine ' John Ry lands Library Shakespeare Exhibition.

Notices to Correspondents.

'THE STANDARD.'

(See ante, pp. 341, 363.)

IN 1857 Baldwin had to part with his papers, and they were purchased by James Johnstone, of the firm of Johnstone, Wintle, Cooper & Evans. Johnstone had no know- ledge of newspapers, so he took as his counsellor John Maxwell, who in later years married Miss Braddon. Maxwell would frequently talk to me of the part he took in advising Johnstone, whom he earnestly urged to obtain the properties even although at a considerable cost ; and accordingly the two papers, The Morning Herald and The Standard copyright, plant, presses, and type were acquired by him for 16,500Z. Under Maxwell's advice changes were Tapidlymade, and on the 29th of June, 1857, the first morning issue of The Standard took place, the price being reduced from fourpence

to twopence, and the four pages being en- larged to eight.

The first offices were in three old Queen Anne houses in Shoe Lane, and there was no attempt at style, either inside or out. I remember going to see Johnstone there ; his room was approached by a flight of old- fashioned stairs, while the room itself was devoid of carpets, and the writing-table and few chairs were old and worn. At first there was a mortgage upon these buildings held by the Conservative party, and Mr. W. G. Bell, in ' Fleet Street in Seven Centuries,' relates how

" the paper printed paragraphs forwarded from the party head- quarters, and these as a rule appeared immediately following the leading articles, until (so the story runs) there came a day when the mortgage was paid off, and the aston- ished Whip received his paragraph back with a curt line from the then editor, Capt. Hamber, that he would see his ' Dear Blank ' da dangling at a rope's end before he would print more of his contributions."

Johnstone, in running the two papers, exercised great economy ; the news columns were the same, although the leaders were different, and the papers, while voicing the same opinions, were supposed to be entirely independent. It was a case of " Oh ! no ! we never mention her," and The Standard became popularly known by the nickname of " Mrs. Gamp," while The Morning Herald was " Mrs. Harris." Johnstone handed over the entire business department to D. Morier Evans, one of his partners in the accountancy firmj and, on his advice, on the 4th of February, 1858, the price of The Standard was reduced to one penny, while The Morning Herald remained at the old price of fourpence. As I shall have no more to say about the latter paper I will only note its quiet departure on the 31st of December, 1869, after an existence of eighty - nine years.

On the llth of June, 1860, an afternoon edition of The Standard was issued, still known as The Evening Standard. Johnstone, with his usual acuteness, found the right editor in Capt. Hamber. The young man had been at Oriel with G. J. Goschien,* while Lord Robert 'ecil and Ward Hunt were keeping their terms elsewhere. My friend Mr. Escott, who was for years on the staff, and to whom I am indebted for much personal information besides that in his ' Masters of Journalism,' published by Fisher Unwin, 1911, describes Hamber as having "a

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 * Created Viscount, 18 Dec., 1900 ; died 7 Feb.,