hours that could be filched from heavier duties. When the task was entered on the writer was not sanguine enough to suppose he could avoid omissions. and other errors; but he had a hope, still indulged -that those into whose hands these volumes may pass, will, when inclined to point out the defects. of the book, have the kindness also to assist in supplying the omissions. The materials for a satisfactory History of Newspapers lie scattered in facts, known one to this person and one to that. If each London or Provincial Journalist-each reader, and each critic —who has an anecdote or a date, would give it publicity, some future volume might be prepared from the combined supply, much more complete than any to be fairly expected from a comparatively unaided writer, who ventures upon an almost untrodden path.