newspaperland

In most ordinary trades goods are bought and sold by weight or measure or quantity, and a customer knows just how much he will get for his pound sterling; but in the glorious realm of newspaperland, where every editor is qualified to tell the Prime Minister what to do in every emergency, nothing so vulgar as accurate quantum for cash paid is allowed.

The author is, of course, well aware that much is untouched in this book, even in the provinces of newspaperland, of London's foreign visitors and of its old shops, hotels and taverns, subjects to which he had given some particular study.