We ourselves think that the attacks in the Press on
Mr. Asquith, Lord Grey of Falloden, and Mr. Balfour have been grossly unjust and ffi-mannered, and altogether discreditable. But, after all, did not Mr. Asquith make rather too much of the part played by the Press in the events which ended in his resignation ? Did he not invest the Press with the wrong sort of importance ? One of the great dangers of the moment is the possibility of the country being governed by newspapers—a terrible fate bound to end in disaster. We sincerely trust that Mr. Lloyd George will be the master, not the servant, of the Press. We think of Byron's lines on the death of Keats, which was attributed to the famous Quarterly article :- "'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be szonfi'd out by an article."
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