, who lived for the most part from hand to mouth, he suppressed
all betting news and tipsters' forecasts in the popular evening paper
that was under his control. His action received instant recognition
and support from the Angel-proprietor of the EVENING VIEWS, the
principal rival evening halfpenny paper, who forthwith issued an ukase
decreeing a similar ban on betting news, and in a short while the
regular evening Press was purged of all mention of starting prices and
probable winners. A considerable drop in the circulation of all these
papers was the immediate result, accompanied, of course, by a
falling-off in advertisement value, while a crop of special betting
broadsheets sprang up to supply the newly-created want. Under their
influence the betting habit became if anything rather wore widely
diffused than before. The Duke had possibly overlooked the futility of
koepenicking the leaders of the nation with excellently intentioned
angel under-studies, while leaving the mass of the people in its
original condition.

Further sensation and dislocation was caused in the Press world by the
sudden and dramatic RAPPROCHEMENT which took place between the
Angel-Editor of the SCRUTATOR and the Angel-Editor of the ANGLIAN
REVIEW, who not only ceased to criticize and disparage the tone and
tendencies of each other's publication, but agreed to exchange
editorships for alternating periods. Here again public support was not
on the side of the angels; constant readers of the SCRUTATOR complained
bitterly of the strong meat which was thrust upon them at fitful
intervals in place of the almost vegetarian diet to which they had
become confidently accustomed; even those who were not mentally averse
to strong meat as a separate course were pardonably annoyed at being
supplied with it in the pages of the SCRUTATOR. To be suddenly
confronted with a pungent herring salad when one had attuned oneself to
tea and toast, or to discover a richly truffled segment of PATE DE FOIE
dissembled in a bowl of bread and milk, would be an experience that
might upset the equanimity of the most placidly disposed mortal. An
equally vehement outcry arose from the regular subscribers of the
ANGLIAN REVIEW who protested against being served from time to time
with literary fare which no young person of sixteen could possibly want
to devour in secret. To take infinite precautions, they complained,
against the juvenile perusal of such eminently innocuous li