The Nineteenth Century.
Those who are interested in the ethics of journalism (and many readers seem to be realizing how much the problem concerns them) will do well to buy the April number of the Nineteenth Century. There are two excellently thoughtful articles dealing with different aspects of journalism. Captain R. A. Scott-James discusses the difficulties of making an honest newspaper pay, and decides that the task is not im- possible. He outlines his ideal paper " decent, vigorous and not wholly unintellectual." There is a minority numbering millions, he says, who are dissatisfied with the standards of the daily Press ; it is to this audience that he would appeal, and in this audience, he conceives, he would find by far the most powerful force of opinion. Mr. R. J. R. G. Wreford takes for text " Evil propaganda corrupts good citizens," and calls attention to the abuses of the cinema, the Church, the stage and the Press. He remarks justly that at present the cinema is the most disappointing of all media for propaganda, since -it appears entirely to lack any sense of responsibility.
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