which appears early in the afternoon, the _Temps_, the _Liberté_, and the _Journal des Débâts_, which appear at about five o’clock, the _Intransigeant_ and the _Presse_, which appear just about dinner time. Of these six papers five are Opposition papers, and only one of these five, the _Journal des Débâts_, makes the slightest attempt to be impartial. The only really impartial evening paper is the _Temps_, which gives the news of the day and comments on it, but comments without bias. The _Patrie_ and the _Presse_ are under the same directorate, the _Intransigeant_, while perhaps not quite so rabid as the _Presse_ and the _Patrie_, is openly unfair whenever politics call for unfairness, as they usually do, and the _Liberté_, while it prints the news, is always invariably and openly in such frank opposition to the Government that nothing done by any member of the Government is ever anything but wrong, and news which has the slightest reference to politics of any kind is invariably coloured. It follows that the local correspondent without a very wide knowledge and experience of French peculiarities and French methods must find it very difficult to form an opinion (in time for transmission to London the same evening) sufficiently without bias to be really valuable. Every journalist in Paris is obliged to read the evening papers; the evening papers, with two honourable exceptions above mentioned, always present the news of the day with the colouring of their political convictions, and the correspondent of an English paper may therefore frequently have found it impossible during the Caillaux drama, as he often found it impossible during the Panama scandal, the Dreyfus case, and other of the periodic convulsions of modern France, to separate the wheat of fact from the chaff of political colouring. In saying this I intend no reflection whatever on the honesty, the brilliance, or the intelligence of the Paris correspondents of the London Press, all of whom are my acquaintances, and most of whom I am proud to number among my personal friends. I feel sure that if any of them happen to read what I have just written they will not only admit its truth, but be inclined to think that I have spoken with even less emphasis than I might.