Sixty Years of Journalism. By II. Findlater Bussey. (J. W.
Arrowsmith, Bristol. 3s. Gd.)—Mr. Bussey snakes out his "sixty years," a very long stretch of time indeed for a journalist, by beginning at thirteen. His father was editor of the Preston Chronicle, a weekly paper. Of course, a weekly does not impose anything like the stress that comes with daily publication. But he did not long remain in the lower ranks, for at twenty-three he was an editor. Naturally he has various amusing things to tell us. Among them is the disastrous blender of an editor, who, affronted at not having the bills of a travelling company to print, criticised adversely the performance of the principal tragedian. Unluckily, the play in which the criticised actor was to have appeared was postponed. But the manager had contrived to get a copy of the criticism, and read it to the audience from the stage. And the paper appeared with it next morning ! One remembers the ladies' magazine which published an account of the Coronation which did not take place.
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