* * * * I mentioned a few weeks ago
the growing vogue of news- letters, representing in most cases some single individual's views on things in general. Since then the flow has become a flood, and at least a dozen examples of this newest—or, rather, of this reversion to the oldest—form of English jour- nalism make their appearance each week or fortnight. First mention is due to Commander King-Hall's K.H. News Letter (to which I am an inveterate subscriber), which has ,now, I believe, attained a circulation of over 50,000. Then there is The Whitehall News, a relatively expensive and august publication ; something new, called Background, the second issue of which has just appeared ; that highly iconoclastic and often uncannily well-informed cyclostyled sheet, The Week; there is The Arrow, produced by a par- ticularly well-informed diplomatic correspondent ; The Foreign Affairs News Letter ; The Broadsheet, of distin- guished legal origins; Considerations, hailing from Australia; Father Desmond's Views Letter, ecclesiastical and Anglo- Catholic ; In Plain English, challengingly patriotic, run by , the medical correspondent of The Times, who has views about money as well as medicine ; The Fleet Street News Letter; and Diplomatic-Political Correspondence, of which I know little. With about three exceptions I doubt whether any of these have much raison d'être, or much expectation of prolonged existence. *
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