Bohemian Days in Fleet Street

Bohemian Days in Fleet Street

Books beget books, even when they are books of autobiography. Not that the writer of reminiscence will admit as much. He isif you believe himthe victim of an irrepressible impulse, or he has at length (usually at great length) yielded to the solicitations of a large circle of acquaintances. I am impelled to my present enterprise by no sense of my own aptitude, nor have my discerning friends urged that some record of my experiences would supply a long-felt want. My booklike a great many other booksowes its existence to a book that went before it. In other and plainer words, if Mr. Philip Gibbs had not written his novel entitled The Street of Adventure, this present collection of reminiscences would never have been attempted. And I should, perhaps, apologize to Mr. Gibbs for saddling him with the awful responsibility. The novel to which allusion has been madeand a very excellent one it issuddenly, but with much distinctness, suggested my course. The muck-rake of reminiscence is deliberately taken up because I represent a condition of Press life that has apparently ceased to exist. If one accepts the statements of Mr. Gibbsand there is every reason why one shouldthe Fleet Street of to-day bears no sort of resemblance to the Fleet Street of yesterday. If I describe the London Press and the London Pressman of less than p. 10two decades ago, I am describing a state of things that has been reformed off the face of the earth, and a race of men extinct as the Dodo. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 51585
Author: Mackay, William
Release Date: Mar 28, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English