Life, Journalism and Politics, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Life, Journalism and Politics, Vol. 2There was no peace for editors, whatever line they took. Every day's letter-bag at the Westminster brought insulting letters, mostly anonymous, leading articles were cut out and sent back to me scored all over with abusive epithets. One little picture is sharply printed on my memory - that Of a great lady who in happier times had invited me to her house, standing on top Of the stairs which lead from the Ladies' Gallery of the House Of Commons to the Lobby, and hurling extremely painful epithets at me as I went down. 11 another occasion I answered the telephone on my table at the Office to find an eminent and very angry British musician at the other end speaking from his house at Hampstead. Are you the editor Of the Westminster Gazette I am, I modestly replied, expecting a communication about a forth coming symphony, but it was far Otherwise. Someone, he said in a voice quivering with rage, has left a copy Of your paper at my house. Please send at once and fetch it away. I suggested that if its presence was disagreeable to him, he had an easy remedy, but the voice persisted in a crescendo Of anger, Send at once, I tell you, send at once and fetch it away.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.