GENERAL BOOTH AND W. T. STEAD
Sn1,—ComMissioner -Lamb in- his interesting article on Salvation Army history writes, "After publication of his great book In Darkest England and the Way Out, General Booth. .. ." If my old editor, W. T. Stead, did not write that historic book—his hand shows throughout—he did a
great deal of it, and without reward, and the fact might as well be acknowledged. I may add perhaps that, as one of the last survivors of the indoor staff of the Pall Mall Gazette in Stead's time, I hope some day to produce an account of that remarkable paper under Greenwood, Morley and Stead and their successors, and have already a considerable collection of material. I shall be very grateful for any recollections or other matter about any of them beyond that available from the obvious sources of information. I am particularly desirous of having recollections of Greenwood, who has never received full justice. I have just acquired a fine painting of him which was in the possession of his daughter, who died this year at the age of 95, and Mr. Blackwood, the Edinburgh publisher, has given me
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