This is the authorised life of the famous journalist and publicist, friend and biographer of Ruskin, who became during the War one of the chiefs of the Press Bureau. Sir Edward Cook was in his time editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, the Westminster Gazette, and the Daily News, and Mr. Saxon Mills’ book throws much valuable light on the political and social England of the last thirty years. Contents:—Parentage and School; Oxford Days; Early Journalism; Early Days on the Pall Mall; Politics in the ’Eighties; Editor of the Pall Mall; From Pall Mall to Westminster; The Westminster Gazette; The Daily News; The South African Scene; Sale of the Daily News; As Editor and Journalist; Literary Work; The Last Task; Death and Character; The Age of Puff; Some Stories.
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH: A Critical Biography. By James I. Osborne.
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MEMORIES OF GEORGE MEREDITH, O.M. By Lady Butcher.
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