London Theatre. The Brittania Magazine is well edited and has original stories and sketches, and sells for sixpence. Bow Bells Magazine is a good local periodical, selling for eightpence, and Belgravia, edited by Miss Braddon, sells for one shilling, as does the St. James, which is well known for its clever Parliamentary sketches. Cyrus Redding, the famous octogenarian writer on wine culture, was for many years a constant contributor to Colburn's Monthly, in which many of William Harrison Ainsworth's sensation serial stories have appeared. Louisa Stuart Costello and her brother Dudley Costello, and Mrs. Ward, for many years contributed to the pages of Colburn's Monthly. Blackwood's Magazine is too well known to need any enumeration of its famous writers. Blackwood's sells at two-and-sixpence the number.

McMillan's Magazine is issued at one shilling a number by the publishing house of McMillan & Co., Bedford street, Covent Garden, having 78 double column pages of matter. Among its contributors are Frederick W. H. Myers, Edward Nolan, S. Greg, Thomas A. Lindsay, Dr. Boyce, Edward A. Freeman, Charles Kingsley, Jean Ingelow, Menella Bute Smedley, Mrs. Brotherton, F. Napier Broome, Thomas Hughes, Godfrey Turner, T. W. Robinson, and F. W. Newman. Cornhill is published by Smith, Elder & Co. All the Year Round is edited by Chas. Dickens, Jr., who is rated very high as a sketch writer, and is also well known as a rowing and yachting man. The London Society Magazine is published at 217 Piccadilly, and the most aristocratic of all the London magazines, being beautifully illustrated, and having excellent social, club, and fashionable sketches. The London Society is sold for a shilling, and has a number of lady artists who make drawings for its pages. Watson, W. Brunton, Lionel Henley, Adelaide Claxton, H. Tuck, A. Thompson, and F. Walker, are among the best known artists on this magazine. Walter Thornbury, author of "Haunted London," Lawrence Oliphant, Edmund Yates, and Lascelles Wraxall, are contributors to the London Society. The "Graphic," the finest illustrated weekly ever published in London, is edited by Arthur Lockyer, who has succeeded its

former editor-H. Sutherland Edwards. The circulation of the different magazines is computed as follows:

Cornhill, 36,000; McMillan, 28,000; Blackwood, 39,000; London Society, 24,000; Frazer, 17,000; Colburn's Monthly, 7,500; Temple Bar, 19,000; St. Paul's, 16,000; Gentleman's Magazine, 25,000; Britannia Magazine, 26,000; St. James', 15,000, and Belgravia, 16,000.

1 The circulation of the principal critical Weeklies is; Saturday Review, sixpence, 38,000; Spectator, sixpence, 22,000; Athenæum, sixpence, 29,600; Examiner and London Review, 13,000. The Saturday Review has forty pages of doublecolumn matter, large print, twelve of which are devoted to advertisements, the remaining pages being taken up with editorials, book reviews, notices of the drama and fine arts. The Athenæum has twenty-two quarto pages of three columns each, ten of which are taken up by advertisements, and the remainder by book reviews, and dramatic, fine art, and scientific notes. The editor of this journal is Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, M. P., who wrote an excellent book of travel, entitled "Greater Britain." Ruskin and Huxley have been contributors to the

Athenaeum. The Spectator has twenty-eight pages folio, and is chiefly noticeable for its valuable historical studies, and its short and spicy paragraphs on the first four pages of the paper. Any of these weeklies will be sent abroad for the additional cost of a penny stamp.

The first number of the London Times was printed January 1, 1788, by John Walter, and the first newspaper printed by steam in Europe was the Times of November 29, 1814. Applegarth and Cowper's four cylindered presses, printing five to eight thousand sheets an hour, were in use by the Times for many years. These were succeeded by Hoe's press with Whithworth's improvement, and now the Bullock press modified, which prints on an endless sheet, is used by the Times. The circulation of this, the leading journal of Europe, varies from 57,000 to 65,000 copies a day, and the owner is Mr. Walter, the son of its founder. John Thaddeus Delane, the son of William F. A. Delane, the former financial manager, who has been succeeded by Mowbray Morris, is the editor of the Times. He is an Oxford man, and was admitted to the bar in 1847. Since 1839 he has been connected with the Times, to whose editorship he succeeded in 1841, on the decease of its then famous editor, Mr. Thomas Barnes. The value of the Times newspaper property has been estimated at three million pounds, or fifteen million dollars. As Thackeray said, its ambassadors are everywhere; one may be seen pricing potatoes at Covent Garden, while another is committing to paper the Cabinet intrigues at Berlin. Among its most celebrated writers have been Barnes, Sterling, Horace Twiss, William Howard Russell, Thackeray, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Baron Alderson, Louis J. Jennings, the American correspondent, now editor of the New York Times, and others. Southey was offered the editorial management at a salary of £2,000 a year, and the same offer was made to Thomas Moore, the poet, but both declined acceptance. The Times, with supplement, has seventy-two columns of matter, on sixteen pages, and 2,250 advertisements have been inserted in one day's issue, seven tons of paper, with a surface of thirty acres, and seven tons of type, being used.

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The circulation and prices of the leading London journals, are as follows: Times, 65,000, four pence; Daily News, 48,000, one penny; Daily Telegraph, 175,000, one penny; Morning and Evening Standard, 80,000, one penny; Morning Advertiser (rumseller's organ), 35,000, one penny; Pall Mall Gazette (evening), 30,000, one penny; Echo (evening), 75,000, one penny; Globe (evening), 8,000, one penny; Punch (weekly), 55,000, six pence; Illustrated London News, 60,000, four pence; Graphic, 80,000, six pence; Bell's Life (sporting), Wednesday and Saturday, 66,000, one penny; The Field (sporting, weekly), 18,000, six pence; Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper

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(Sunday), 140,000, one penny: Weekly Times (Sunday)owned by London Journal, which has a circulation of 200,000110,000, one penny; Cassell's Weekly Magazine, 90,000, Weekly Dispatch (Sunday), 215,000, two pence; Reynold's Newspaper (Sunday), 280,000, one penny; Jewish Record (weekly), one penny, 7,500; Tablet (Catholic weekly), four pence, 36,000.

The Morning Telegraph is the most popular daily newspaper in the world. During periods of great excitement its circulation increases to over 200,000 copies a day, and it takes four tencylinder, and four six-cylinder Hoe's presses, to strike off its daily editions. The correspondent of the Telegraph at Paris, Mr. Whitehurst, is hand and glove with Napoleon, and his salary amounts to £10,000, with a horse and brougham thrown in. The editor of the Telegraph is Thornton Hunt, son of Leigh Hunt, who was for twenty years on the staff of the Spectator. The sub-editor of the Telegraph, for they have no managing editors in England, is Mr. Ralph Harrison, to whom I am much indebted for courtesies received. The owner of the Telegraph is a Hebrew gentleman named Levy. The Daily News is owned by the Liberation Society, a Dissenters' association, and is edited I believe, by Mr. Edward Dicey, formerly a special correspondent of the Telegraph, who went to Suez for that journal. Tom Hood, son of the poet, was editor of the Tomahawk formerly, and lately of the Latest News, a penny Saturday paper, and Arthur A Becket has edited Fun. James Grant is now editor of the Morning Advertiser, at a salary of fifty pounds a week, and Blanchard Jerrold receives £800 a year for editing Lloyds' Weekly. The salaries of editors on the London press vary from fifteen to fifty pounds a week, according to the ability displayed, and the circumstances of the journal on which they are employed.