DIGITISED MANUSCRIPTS

( 36 ) men of the highest standing are proud to be on the staff of a daily paper, and some of our most eminent public men were at one time connected with the press. Lord Salisbury, when he was still Lord Robert Cecil, was a leader-writer on the Standard ; Mr. Leonard Courtney, Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, occupied a similar position on the Times; Mr. Robert Lowe, afterwards Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, and now Lord Sherbrooke, also followed the profession of journalism; the Solicitor-General, Sir Edward Clarke, was a news- paper reporter; and last, but not least, Mr. W. H. Smith in his younger days worked at the business established by his father, and which is now the greatest newspaper-distributing ageney in the world. The advertisements produce the great incomes which are now made by the daily papers; but, again, those journals which by the excellence of their news and the ability of their writing secure the largest circulation have the greatest number of advertisements. If you want an hour’s amusement or profit you can obtain it by scanning the adver- tising sheets of a leading daily paper. There you will find the most ludicrous and absurd notices side by side with ones which are in the highest degree practical and useful. There is scarcely a want im life which these columns do not offer to satisfy. There are amuse-