The Institute of Journalists has been holding its anni- versary
meeting this week at Norwich ; and on occasion of its visit to Cambridge University, Professor Jebb, the Member for the University, delivered a most interesting address on the educational power of journalism, of which perhaps the only defect was that it did not sufficiently appreciate the danger of giving newspapers a too didactic tone which might destroy their usefulness altogether. Once let the school- master show himself in the journalist, and the journalist is lost. It is quite true, as Professor Jebb admitted, that the commercial necessity of making a journal good reading rather " handicaps " the journalist in dealing with currency or economic science, or any other difficult matter, than renders it impossible for him to deal with these things effectively. In other words, it takes a great deal of skill and delicacy,— almost, indeed, a special genius,—to make discussions of this kind palatable at all; but still no doubt the special skill and genius for such a task will now and then show itself. Nevertheless, a horse that is heavily handicapped must be more than a Lades' to win the race.
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