s it was a daily paper that
made the innovation, weekly papers may, without loss of dignity, adopt
the custom as their own. But it is well known that, in London at least,
there is only one daily paper, and that is the "We" speaking from a
particular address, located somewhere between Temple Bar and St. Paul's.

Argal, it is impossible that this peculiarly situated entity should
borrow from other papers. Yet I once heard the manager of what we are
pleased to call the leading journal confess he envied the _Daily News'_
side-headings to its leaders, and regretted the impossibility of
adapting them for his own journal. That was an opinion delivered in
mufti. In full uniform, no manager--certainly no editor--of another
morning paper is aware of the existence of the _Daily News_; the _Daily
News_, on its part, being courageously steeped in equally dense
ignorance of the existence of other journals.

[Illustration: INDENTED HEADINGS.]

Few things are so funny as the start of surprise with which a London
journal upon rare occasion finds itself face to face with a something
that also appears every morning at a price varying from a penny to
threepence. Nothing will induce it to give the phenomenon a name, and it
distantly alludes to it as "a contemporary." This is quite peculiar to
Great Britain, and is in its way akin to the etiquette of the House of
Commons, which makes it a breach of order to refer to a member by his
proper name. It does not exist in France or the United States, and there
are not lacking signs that the absurd lengths to which it has hitherto
been carried out in the English Press are being shortened.

[Illustration: "CONTEMP(T)ORARIES."]

SIR WALTER BARTTELOT.

But that is an aside, meant only to introduce an old friend in a new
place. I was going to explain how it came about that, in the
mid-February issue of THE STRAND MAGAZINE, the name of Sir
Walter Barttelot should appear in the list of members of the present
House of Commons who had seats in the House in 1873, and that another
number of the Magazine has been issued without the correction, widely
made elsewhere, being noted. It is due simply to the fact of the
phenomenal circulation of a magazine which, in order to be out to date,
requires its contributors to send in their copy some two months in
advance.

It is not too late to say a word about the late member for Sussex, a
type rapidly disappearing from the Parliamentary stage. He entered the
H