The battle of Brighton
Sir: You are warmly to be congratulated upon either the speed of your printing arrangements or the foresight of your correspondents. For, in your letters column of 28 March, Mr Skeffing- ton-Lodge, with very good reason to know, wrote of the precise taste in motor-cars of 'the new se for Brighton Pavilion.' Yet the poll had been declared only, late on the previous evening when all good weeklies should have gone to bed.
In its edition of the same date your 'states- manlike' contemporary's diarist pretended to no such knowledge, merely observing: 'By the time most readers see this we will presumably have learnt the worst.' Or the best, since he was writing of the same event as Mr Skeffington- Lodge. How did you do it? Or was Mr Skeffington- Lodge exercising some gift of prophecy, strengthened by personal foreboding, which should have commended him better to the Brighton electors? Time and tide (excuse the phrase) are said to wait for no man—but per- haps they make an exception in your printing works.
The credit is due entirely to Mr Skeffington- Lodge.—Editor, SPECTATOR.
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