The conditions under which writers and readers have multiplied from the
days of albums and keepsakes, written and edited by people of quality,
to those of high class monthly reviews of to-day--The deeper movements
and superficial changes, as well as the individuals connected with
this progress, from the great Lord Lansdowne and Lord Stanhope to Lady
Hayter and the Savage Club--Journalism behind the scenes, as well as
before the footlights--The unpublished history of the great newspapers,
London and Provincial, their editors and their writers--The revelations
between writer, publisher, and public--are among the many points dealt
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The Pomps of Satan. A volume of Essays by EDGAR
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