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��Among the writers of congratulations received by The City sir Andrew Press we find the City's grand old man Sir Andrew Lusk, firmly Lusk. convinced that the Corporation " occupies to-day a stronger position than ever in the affections of the public " ; and Mr. C. T. Todd, the father of the Corporation, who became a member in the year that the paper was established. (Mr. Todd died on Monday, the 27th of July, 1908, in his ninetieth year.) Another con- gratulator is Mr. Walter Wellsman, whose Diamond Jubilee editor- ship of ' Mitchell's Newspaper Press Directory ' has already been celebrated (see ante, pp. 192-6). Mr. G. L. Gomme also sends a graceful tribute.

Mr. Firth once described The City Press as " the hired bravo of the Corporation." That this description was incorrect its entire history proves. Sir William Soulsby well says Sir William of it that " loyalty to the ancient traditions of the City Soulsby. has not prevented its being a dispassionate critic." During fifty years it has been a complete mirror of City life. Its present editor is Mr. George Rooke Collingridge, while the other members of the firm are the sons of the founder, and a nephew, Mr. Leonard Thomas Collingridge. The paper is valuable for its antiquarian articles and City lore, and a glance at recent numbers shows that it is intended that The City Press shall live up to its old traditions, and retain the honourably independent position it has always held in the English press. May it not only celebrate its Diamond Jubilee, but also be equally prosperous when it shall celebrate its Centenary !

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