24 MARCH 1917, Page 13

THE NORTHCLIFFE PRESS.

(To THE EDITOR. OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Reading your protest against the treatment of Lord Kitchener by the Weekly Dispatch, a quotation very applic- able to the Northcliffe Press came into my mind from Driden's "Absalom and Achitopliel ":--

" Railing and praising were [its] usual themes; And both (to show [its] judgment) in extremes: So over violent, or over civil, That every man with [it] was God or Devil."