We may be allowed to offer a word of greeting
and good wishes to the Westminster Gazette in its new form. It has become a morning newspaper, and has put off its familiar green garb and taken on an ordinary white dress. We shalt miss the green sheets which had become so much a feature of our London evenings. But there is no need to commiserate the Westminster Gazette. We must felicitate it, because it hopes for much new and wider opportunities in its reincarnation. It has always had thousands of readers who disagreed with it on most topics, because those readers found in it a scholarly -and sincere pre- tentation of opinion. Not every newspaper is paid the compli- ment of being treated critically by its readers, but if wo may judge from the letters to the editor of the Westminster Gazette it has always been so treated. It has been read with the most careful attention, and when people who disagreed with it took the trouble to reason with it nicely and exactly, it meant that they did so because it was an organ, unlike some other evening newspapers, which could not possibly be ignored. It is all part of the method and spirit of the IVestmineter Gazette that it has been a most discriminating judge of the arts. It has been con- ducted by intellectual men for rational readers.
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