The war, which has been responsible for the death of
many journals, is to see the birth of one to which I look forward with rather lively interest. It is a village product, its title The Abinger Chronicle, and the contributors to its first issue include names on which any paper in the land might plume itself, among them those of Sir Max Beerbohm, E. M. Forster and Dr. Ralph Vaughan Williams—all local talent. Since Abinger also numbers amongst its residents Lord Lugard, Lord Farrer, Mr. Roland Vaughan Williams, K.C., and Mr. Bechofer Roberts, well known both as bio- grapher and writer of detective stories, there is plenty of scope for the new paper yet. The originator of the project, Mrs. Cecil Sprigge, as wife of the City Editor of the Man- chester Guardian and daughter of the former Times corre- spondent at Berlin, George Saunders, is no amateur. Other villages please emulate.
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