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 Leading from this is an containing, containing, in addition to the ordinary furniture of a well set up private office, Mr. Harry How, who, besides his editorial work on Tit-Bits, is the writer of the Illustrated Interviews with celebrated people which form so prominent a feature in each month's issue of this Magazine. Here, in addition to a large portrait of Mr. Newnes, the walls are decorated with many photographic mementoes of Mr. How's interviews, with autographs of the notabilities operated upon. Among them is noticeable the last photograph ever taken of Cardinal Manning, Mr. How himself being included in the picture.

Now, when the work originating in these editorial offices goes out to be put into printed form, it first reaches the room at the opposite end of the second-floor corridor the composing room. Here, under a little hanging forest of electric lamps, stands a little regiment of compositors, each man before his double case, filling his stick from his case and his galley from his stick, in the old familiar way of printers since printers were. When an article is entirely put into type on the galley—a sort of long brass tray—a proof is printed of it on