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��NOTES BY THE WAY.

��John Hullah

contributes

on musical

topics.

"Father Prout."

��Sir Joseph Crowe's

' Reminis- cences.'

��Joseph Knight.

��Capt. T. Carlisle.

��Marwood Tucker, a son-in-law of Beresford Hope ; Mr. E. E. Pea- cock, well known in connexion with The Morning Post ; Sir George Armstrong, Mr. Ponsonby Ogle, followed by Mr. Algernon Locker.

The Centenary article raises the veil, and gives us a glance at some of its contributors during the past forty years. Among them we find John Hullah as a contributor on musical topics, and Father Prout (the Rev. Francis Mahony,) who became Paris corre- spondent shortly after the Revolution of 1848. In a book pub- lished by Chatto & Windus, 1876, ' The Final Reliques of Father Prout,' collected by Blanchard Jerrold, some passages from his letters to The. Globe are given, with an interesting portrait. Sir Joseph Crowe, in his ' Reminiscences of Thirty-Five Years of my Life ' (John Murray), makes the following amusing reference to Prout's work on The Daily News : " He was our correspondent at Rome, yet, quaintly enough, almost always wrote his Roman letter in Whitefriars .... What he wrote was always short and pithy, full of subtle witticisms, not ' rari nantes in gurgite vasto,' but abundant, like plums in a pudding." Mr. T. H. S. Escott, Mr. R. E. Francillon, Mrs. Lynn Linton, Tom Purnell (one of the last of the old Bohemian journalists), Mortimer Collins, Mr. Comyns Carr, Sir Douglas Straight, Mr. T. J. Hamerton, and Mr. Danson also figure in the list of contributors. A well-known feature of the paper consists of the " turnovers," commenced in 1877, the first of them, on ' Irish Life,' being contributed by Barry O'Brien.

The Globe mentions a fact which is of interest to readers of ' N. & Q.' that Joseph Knight had been the chief dramatic critic for about thirty years. He continued to occupy that position until within a short time of his death, June 23rd, 1907.

Another old member of the literary staff who has also died since the Centenary was Capt. Thomas Carlisle, whose death occurred in September, 1907. He had been on the paper for nearly forty years ; his articles ' An Unprofessional Vagabond,' which appeared in 1873, are still remembered. In order to obtain material for them he donned all sorts of queer disguises, and under- went many unpleasant experiences as a crossing-sweeper, street hawker, &c. For many years he edited The People.

The Globe has on two occasions brought out Sunday editions : the first on the 26th of April, 1868, to announce the fall of Magdala ; and again on that Sunday in December, 1871, when his present Majesty hung between life and death at Sandringham. Another instance of the enterprise of the paper was afforded on " Explosion Day," the 24th of January, 1885. I remember Mr. Wellsman informing me at the time that the sale of The Globe that day was 130,000. As regards the printing of the paper, electricity has been substituted for steam, and it was the first daily in London to be set up by the linotype. As an instance with what energy the affairs of The Globe are

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