274 " MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE ! " 



I often received, for I or the sub-editor would go almost 

 every week to Downing Street before the paper went to 

 Press, and Mr Akers-Douglas used to tell us any little 

 items of news that he thought fit to communicate. In 

 that way was the paper beholden to the party and in 

 no other. 



A complaint was once made to the Committee of the 

 Junior Carlton about a St Stephen's Review cartoon 

 which reflected on a member of the Government. I 

 was a member of the club, but the committee, in their 

 wisdom, took no action. 



The motto chosen for St Stephen's Review was : 



Nothing extenuate nor set down aught in malice, 



and that was faithfully adhered to, though we were 

 defendants in certain strange cases about which I shall 

 have something to say. The life of the paper, however, 

 covered a very interesting period, and in this present book 

 I can give no more than a brief sketch of it. This point 

 alone is worth a note that when after a few months we 

 found it necessary to give the portraits of people who 

 formed the subjects of principal articles, it was impossible 

 to get photographs reproduced on blocks except by sending 

 them to Germany. This necessitated a delay of at least 

 three weeks and would have been totally needless had it 

 not been for the apathy which free imports had caused 

 in this country. 



Those blocks when they came from Germany were 

 atrociously bad, but such as they were we produced them, 

 and they were appreciated. Compare such a production 

 now with one of the lovely things that appear in Country 

 Life Illustrated and it is easy indeed to see what a change 

 the " whirligig of time " has brought. 



The staff of St Stephen's Review, both literary and 

 artistic, was always a good one, and it may be a surprise 

 to many to know that, as I had to spread myself as editor, 

 I did not write the sporting stuff, except on emergency, 



