20 FEBRUARY 1926, Page 3

The Morning Post is to be congratulated on its new

scheme of publishing daily a number of " Notes by the Way " by well-known contributors. The notes are simply paragraphs of not more than two hundred words each and contain some idea or reflection which happens to have been passing through the mind of the contributor. The results are very interesting and they tempt us to appeal to correspondents of the Spectator to see whether they could not subject their letters to the Editor to similar compression. Taine said that every book could be reduced to one chapter and that chapter to one sentence—a hard saying but a salutary !

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