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 Organization of Journalism. 31 of members, which includes gentlemen not connected with the Press in any way, who are introduced by press- men. The Liverpool Press Club (Limited) was registered as a Company in 1886, and has three classes for ordinary, associate, and honorary members. Associate members are those not actually engaged in Press work, but identi- fied with literature or otherwise desirable members, while honorary members are gentlemen of prominent public position. There is reason to anticipate that Press Clubs will become more numerous in the future, because they form in provincial towns, where membership is not rigidly confined to Press men, a convenient rendezvous for those of literary or artistic tastes, while the extending organiza- tion of the Press renders a " local habitation " especially desirable for the purpose of meetings and other gatherings which have from time to time to be convened in associa- tion with journalistic societies. It was, indeed, owing to the efforts of the members ot one of these institutions, namely the Manchester Press Club, that the Institute of Journalists was initiated. This now flourishing institution, which has overspread the land with its organization, and won the adhesion of over 1,600 journalists of all grades throughout Great Britain, origi- nated with the pressmen of Manchester. Credit is due to them for much patient labor in the infant days of the National Association of Journalists, when it was not so easy as it is now to convince the journalistic world that an institution of vital importance to the profession was being promoted. Yet it must at the same time be admitted that the good seed sown at Manchester fell on fruitful soil. There was a general feeling that some institution was needed to combine the working pressmen of England in one united body, having for its common object the im- provement of the professional status, and the safeguarding of general interests. There had, too, just at the time,