British Journalists and Newspapers. By Derek Hudson. (Collins. 4s. 6d.)
ArrttAcrzvE as all "Britain in Pictures" books are, this particular volume is open to one criticism. When the space for letterpress is so limited-48 pages, and much of them occupied by pictures—care- ful allocation is vital. Mr. Hudson takes 27 of his 48 to get to the nineteenth century, and of the remaining 21 Some Sof are devoted to The Times alone. No one would deny the supremacy of that great organ, but the effect of such page-planning is that while the student of the news-letters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries will find himself amply catered for, there is virtually no mention of the great provincial papers of today, with the exception of the Manchester Guardian. With these reservations, the book is to be recommended. And no doubt if Mr. Hudson prefers to tell his readers more about journalists and newspapers of the past than ot the present, he is perfectly entitled to do that. At zny rate, what he tells them is interesting and accurate.
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