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 Southampton Street, and its permanent fittings are of a similar character—both pleasant rooms enough, with their framed sketches and padded chairs, but still work-rooms. Instead of MSS., however, many drawings, many wood-blocks, and many India-paper proofs litter the tables. Photographs of various-aged celebrities, and of their drawing-rooms and studies, are observable, lying in well-ordered confusion. There is a large magnifying lens mounted on a frame, and there are numbered drawers full of many clever pieces of artistry. The room behind, too, is devoted to the arrangement and storage of black and white drawings, and of current woodblocks and electros. The table more immediately in Mr. Boot's constant use, near the window, is at once distinguishable by its plentiful litter of pencils and brushes.

On the opposite side a passage ends at the door of Tit-Bits headquarters. This is a light and airy room overlooking Southampton Street, and fitted with various writing-tables. Here is the sanctum of Mr. Galloway Fraser—who, under Mr. Newnes, conducts Tit-Bits—and Mr. J. L. Munro, who assists in the same work. In the illustration Mr. Fraser is standing. A large portrait of Mr. Newnes hangs over the piece, and many books of reference occupy the surrounding shelves and cases. The usual electric lights and the telephone fittings for general communication are observable.