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 CHAPTER IX.

��' THE GLOBE ' ' THE FIELD ' ' THE NEWSPAPER PRESS

DIRECTORY' ( THE DAILY TELEGRAPH.'

(January, 1903-^June, 1905.)

'THE GLOBE' CENTENARY. (January 1st, 1903.)

THE new year opened with two important newspaper celebra- tions : on the 1st inst. occurred the Centenary of The Globe, and on the same date The Field commemorated its Jubilee. Both papers may be congratulated on enjoying great prosperity. That of The Globe has only been obtained after many struggles and vicissitudes, while The Field, after the second year of its existence, was on the high road to success. The Globe, as is pretty well known, owes its origin to the London publishers, or booksellers, as they then preferred to be called. Mr. Joseph Shaylor, in his article on ' Publishing ' which appears in vol. xxxii. (one of the new volumes) of ' The Encyclopaedia Britannica,' points out that the description of publishing and bookselling in the earlier volumes is no longer correct : " The publisher now confines his energies entirely to the production and publication of books, while the bookseller retails them to the public, whereas in the later part of the eighteenth and earlier part of the nineteenth century the principal booksellers associated together to produce and sell books."

The Morning Post had become so prosperous as frequently to crowd out the booksellers' announcements for want of space. This gave great offence, and the booksellers combined for the starting of two newspapers of their own : one a morning paper, The British Press ; the other an evening paper, The Globe. The actual sale, states James Grant in his ' History of the Newspaper Press,' " did not exceed 200 copies each." " The booksellers almost immediately, from various causes, began to drop off." " Mr. Murray (the first of that name), now of Albemarle Street, then a very young man, was the most active and liberal and valuable among them ; but he, with Messrs. Longman, Clarke of Portugal Street, Butterworth, and many others of the greatest influence and importance, after a short time withdrew." The British Press had only a brief career, but the evening paper continued on its way.

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��1903, Jan. 17.

Centenary of

The Globe.

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Owes its

origin to the

London booksellers.

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