13 MARCH 1920, Page 15

POPULAR WEEKLIES.

ITo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sie,—In your review of Fleet Street and Downing Street you speak of Sir George Newnes with Tit-Bits in 1881 and Mr. Harmsworth with Answers in 1888 as the pioneers of popular weekly journals. I would point out, however, that Sir John Leng, M.P., founded that very popular weekly the People's Friend in 1869, while the Family Herald is, I believe, some ten years earlier.—With congratulations to the Spectator on giving us not " ninepence for fourpence " but forty pages for