William Blacklock, Journalist. By T. Banks Ma.clachlan. (Oliphant, Anderson, and
Ferrier.)—This "Love St3ry of Press
Life" contains much that is interesting. The author, it is clear, knows something of what goes on in the various offices of a daily newspaper. Whether this is really more worth reading about than is the inner life of other occupations, is doubtful. The public, however, thinks so, and that is enough. They will find something of what they want in Mr. Maclachlan's pages. We cannot, indeed, compliment this gentleman on the management of his story. Having chosen "William Blacklock, Journalist," for his hero, why did he not stick to him P We are allowed to become interested in him, and then the poor fellow is allowed to go to the bad, and we are expected to transfer our liking to a new hero, who, we must own, has something of the look of a prig.
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