17 DECEMBER 1921, Page 23

Mr. A. Albert Campbell has reprinted from the Belfast Tele-

graph some valuable articles on Belfast Newspapers, Past and Present (Belfast: W. & G. Baird, Is.), which are a useful contribution to the history of the British press that has still to be written. The first newspaper published in Belfast-in 1737-was the News-Letter, which is still flourishing ; it is the oldest paper in Ireland and one of the very few British news- papers which can boast of an uninterrupted existence from the reign of George the Second. The Northern Whig dates from 1824.