A Journalist's Note-Book

_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...

_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--...

_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...

_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...

_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-...

_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...

_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...

_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...

_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...

_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--...

_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,...

_“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...

_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...

_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...

_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-...

_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...

_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...

_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...

_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...

_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...

_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”...