11 NOVEMBER 1922, Page 43

THE NOVEMBER MAGAZINES.

THE NLNETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER.

Is there perhaps a slight tendency to heaviness to be detected in the November issue ? Is it even combined with a certain aloofness from current affairs ? At any rate, the article on " Pietro Aretino, the First Journalist," is most entertaining- Aretino, the infamous man, " whom even the Capuchins were obliged to vomit." He it was, that " monster of iniquity," who discovered the weapon of publicity and used it to the utmost for his own anarchic or selfish purposes. " He con- trived a weapon for his own ends which has in our own day come to be more powerful than any established government- -publicity, the Press."