NEWSPAPERS AND ADVERTISEMENTS.
(To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—It would bo interesting to know how the Journal which Mr. Rushbrooke holds up as a model manages to pay its way without advertisements. Where does the necessary money come from? Financial, dependence may take various, forms. As a reader, I do not object to advertisements in newspapers, unless they (1) are very ugly and blatant—the appearance of a large boot in your own genteel columns some time ago was, I confess, a painful shock to me—or (2) are placed so as to interrupt the reading matter. To a good many people the book advertise- ments at the end of a high-class journal are not the least attrac. tive part of it. May I add that it is surprising to me that your correspondent should impute to the Spectator unwillingness to publish letters expressing opinions different from its own or letters criticizing and attacking it?—I am, Sir, &o., O. L. D.
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