SCOTCHMEN AND JOURNALISM.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I read with real interest and satisfaction your article on ".Why Scotchmen Get On." With marked insight you point out the causes, and in so doing will clear the vision and strengthen the determination of many a one who in humble position is in- stinctively exercising the qualities which he can now perceive may carry him to the foremost place in his trade or profession. But I am surprised to see that you seem to imply that journalism is an exception. It is a fact known to all who have had the opportunity of judging that in no department of life have "young men from Scotland" been more successful. It is a very common ambition to get into a newspaper office, and I could mention scores of instances of lads beginning with "addressing the covers," and rising to be reporters, sub-editors, and editors. Not unfrequently they have left behind Englishmen whose prospects at the outset seemed to be the brightest. On the metropolitan press Scotchmen are fairly represented, and there is scarcely a provincial office in which Scotchmen will not be found occupying foremost positions. I put forward no claim of superiority; I only say in respect to Scotchmen getting forward that journalism is no exception, and is in fact the profession in which their advance- ment is the easiest and most rapid.—I am, Sir, &c.,
ONE WHO HAS GOT ON.
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