How to Succeed as a Journalist. By John Pendleton. (Grant
Richards 3s. 6d )—The " Journalist " who is the subject of this little book is the journalist of the daily paper, and Mr. Pendleton has much that is interesting to say about him. In chap. 22, for instance, he tells us about the " Obituary." We gather that in most cases there is much already prepared of the article, generally well written, that appears on the very shortest notice of the death of some celebrity. Still, all is not explained, and one can only fall back on the almost unlimited capacity of the practised pressman for rising to an emergency. Emergencies are happily unknown, or almost unknown, in the serener atmo- sphere of the " weekly." The writer of this notice, though he can look back to many years of journalism, feels unequal to the criticising of Mr. Pendlet,m's book. He finds it interesting ; can readily believe that it will be useful ; but his predominant feel- ing is thankfulness that he has not got to learn "how to succeed as a journalist."
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