London at the End of the Century:A Book of Gossip
a Beckett, Arthur William
1900
CONCERNING "The Morning Post."
Although every daily paper at the end of the century has its is certainly the journal of journals associated with that august body once known as the and now describable as the Its change in price from threepence to a penny was an experiment that was watched with the deepest interest in . It marked an importent event in social history. has, during the last sixty or seventy years, been regarded as the organ of the aristocracy, and by the change in its price has brought economy into fashion. Two or three decades ago a duke, much less a duchess, would never have thought of riding in an omnibus. At the present time some of the 'busses have the most distinguished . In the fifties it was thought the thing to keep up appearances to any extent. Lord Lytton, in his comedy of showed a spendthrift, impecunious baronet paying a man about town a small salary to call him to conceal the emptiness of his coffers. Today it is quite the mode to talk of one's poverty. Another remarkable thing connected with the change of price in is that, in spite of the reduction, the paper was never better edited. It is | |
7 | as full as of yore of all that goes to make a London daily the finest journal in the world. |