Category: Humour

A Journalist's Note-Book

_Odd lots of journalism--Respectability and its relation to journalism--The abuse of the journal--The laudation of the journalist--Abuse the consequence of popularity--Popularity the consequence of abuse--Drain-work and grey hairs--“Don’t neglect your reading for the sake of r...

Chapters

20. CHAPTER XX.--ON SOME FORMS OF CLEVERNESS.

_The British Association--The late Professor Tyndall--His Belfast address--The centre of strict orthodoxy--The indignation of the pulpits--Worse than atheism--Biology and blasph...

13. CHAPTER XIII--THE SUBJECT OF REPORTS.

_The lecture society--“Early Architecture”--The professional consultation--Its result--“Un verre d’eau”--Its story--Lyrics as an auxiliary to the lecture--The lecture in print--...

15. CHAPTER XV.--IRISH TROTTINGS AND JOTTINGS.

_Some Irish hotels--When comfort comes in at the door, humour flies out by the window--A culinary experience--Plenty of new sensations--A kitchen blizzard--How to cook corned be...

19. CHAPTER XIX.--SOME IMPERFECT STUDIES.

_A charming theme--The new tints--An almost perfect descriptive system--An unassailable position--The silver mounting of the newspaper staff--An unfair correspondcnt--A lady jou...

2. CHAPTER II.--THE OLD SCHOOL.

_The frock-coat and muffler journalist--A doomed race--One of the specimens--A masterpiece---“Stilt your friend”--A jaunty emigrant--A thirsty knave--His one rival--Three crops-...

4. CHAPTER IV.--THE UNATTACHED EDITOR.

_The “casual” word--The mighty hunter--The retort discourteous--How the editor’s chair was broken--An explanation on a clove--The master of a system--A hitch in the system--The...

16. CHAPTER XVI.--IRISH TOURISTS AND TRAINS.

_The late Emperor of Brazil--An incredulous hotel manager--The surprised A.R.A.--The Emperor as an early riser--The habits of the English actor--A new reputation--Signor Ciro Pi...

11. CHAPTER XI.--ON SOME FORMS OF SPORT.

_An invitation to shoot rooks--The sub-editors gun--A quotation from “The Rivals”--The rook in repose--How the gun came to be smashed--Recollections of the Spanish Main--A great...

7. CHAPTER VII.--SOME EXTINCT TYPES.

_A perturbed spirit--The loss of a fortune--A broken bank--A study in bimetallism--Auri sacra fames--A rough diamond--A friend of the peerage--And of Dublin stout--His weaknesse...

5. CHAPTER V.--THE SUB-EDITORS.

_The old and the new--The scissors and paste auxiliaries--A night’s work--“A dorg’s life”--How to communicate with the third floor--A modern man in the old days--His migration--...

6. CHAPTER VI--THE SUB-EDITORS (continued).

_The opium eater--A babbler o’ green fields--The “Brither Scots”--A South Sea idyl--St. Andrew Lang Syne--An intelligent community--The arrival of the “Bonnie Doon,” Mackellar,...

10. CHAPTER X--THE VEGETARIAN AND OTHERS.

_“Benjamin’s mess”--An alluring name--Scarcely accurate--A frugal supper--Why the sub-editor felt rather unwell--“A man should stick to plain homely fare”--Two Sybarites--The st...

14. CHAPTER XIV.--IRELAND AS A FIELD FOR REPORTERS.

_The humour of the Irish Bench--A circus at Bombay--Mr. Justice Lawson--The theft of a pig--“Reasonably suspected”--A prima facie case for the prosecution--The defence--The judg...

3. CHAPTER III.--THE EDITOR OF THE PAST.

_Proprietary rights--Proprietary wrongs--Exclusive rights--The “leaders” of a party--The fossil editor--The man and the dog and the boar--An unpublished history--The newspaper h...

9. CHAPTER IX.--ON THE HUMAN IMAGINATION.

_Mr. Henry Irving and the Stag’s Head--The sense of smell--A personal recollection--Caught “tripping”--The German band--In the pre-Wagnerian days--Another illustration of a too-...

12. CHAPTER XII.--SOME REPORTERS.

_An important person--The mayor-maker--Two systems--The puff and the huff--“Oh that mine enemy were reported verbatim!”--Errors of omission--Summary justice--An example--The aba...

17. CHAPTER XVII--HONORARY EDITORS AND OTHERS.

_Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the P...

8. CHAPTER VIII.--MEN, MENUS, AND MANNERS.

_A humble suggestion--The reviewer from Texas--His treatment of the story of Joseph and his Brethren--A few flare-up headings--The Swiss pastor--Some musical critics--“Il Don Gi...

18. CHAPTER XVIII.--OUTSIDE THE LYCEUM BILL.

_Mr. Edwin Booth--Othello and Iago at supper--The guest--Mr. Irving’s little speech--Mr. Booth’s graceful reply--A striking tableau--A more memorable gathering--The hundredth ni...

1. CHAPTER I.--PAST AND PRESENT.

_Odd lots of journalism--Respectability and its relation to journalism--The abuse of the journal--The laudation of the journalist--Abuse the consequence of popularity--Popularit...

21. CHAPTER XXI.--“SO CAREFUL OF THE TYPE.

_Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”...