CHAPTER XXVI 



St Stephen's Review A Desperate Adventure Never subsidised 

 by the Party Less than 500 Capital Mr Grantham, Q.C., 

 a Director Photographs reproduced in Germany Lord 

 Marcus Beresford and Mr George Lambton Others who 

 wrote Mr Gladstone advertises us How we followed this 

 up Mr Gladstone's ^100 Mr Joseph Chamberlain's ^250 

 Beauty Competition A Libellous Sub-Editor He libels 

 my Friend, Edward Legge Mr Grantham advises We 

 lose heavily First Meeting with Phil May 



1HAD seen both Shotover and St Blaise win the 

 Derby before my plans for St Stephen's Review were 

 sufficiently matured, and both these animals were 

 extremely lucky to win. Bruce should beyond all ques- 

 tion have beaten Shotover, but his jockey, " Thammy " 

 Mordan, declared that he shied at a piece of paper. It is 

 equally certain that Galliard was a better horse than 

 St Blaise, and it was said that Galliard's defeat led to 

 Lord Falmouth's decision to sell his horses, but this his 

 lordship afterwards denied. 



The St Stephen's Review project moved slowly, and had 

 I known as much about newspapers as I do now it would 

 have never gone through at all. I got the nominal 

 support of most of the influential members of the party, 

 but the arrangement of finance was another matter 

 altogether. There are many people who would be greatly 

 interested even now to know the financial history of 

 St Stephen's Review, but I am only concerned to state 

 here that the Conservative party had from first to last 

 nothing to do with it. Never a penny of the party 

 money found its way to my paper. Mr Akers-Douglas 

 was the patronage secretary all the time, and he 

 knows that the above statement is strictly true. Captain 

 R. W. Middleton is dead, or he also would verify the 



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