HOMES AND NEWSPAPERS
THE JOURNALIST’S LONDON, by Philip Gibbs: LONDON HOMES, by Ralph Dutton. Both published in The Londoner’s Library, by Allan Wingate. English price, 15/-. Now in the seventies, Philip Gibbs, who contributes to this admirable series of specialised books on London, is an old friend. He lives in newspaper history by, among other things, his courage in doubting whether Dr.Frederick Cook had reached the North Pole, and in the fiction of journalism by that minor classic, The Street of Adventure. Here he covers the whole history of London journalism, but the greater part is about what he himself has known so well in 50 years. As one would expect. the book is rich -in human interest, crowded with reminiscences and pen portraits of journalists and public men, and throwing light on political history There have been changes, not only in newspapers, but in the men who make them. Philip Gibbs says he has no personal quarrel with ‘the "Press lords," but clearly prefers the old-time editor who "was pleased to take his evening meal at his own desk brought in from a near-by tavern," a man with a pride of his own "beyond that of princes." I recommend this to all who like the smell of printer’s ink. ‘ A study of the housing of London’s well-to-do through three centuries has a much narrower interest, but Ralph Dutton makes the most of it. Domestic architecture is linked with life. Here are details, the result of much research, of the stately town houses of the gentry
and the middle-class homes that multiplied in Victorian times. The 18th Century was a flowering period. A falling off in architecture and furnishings set in about 1830, roughly coincident with the death of that somewhat cultivated reprobate George IV. In the Victorian era wealth accumulated and sanitation and morals improved, but ,taste declined Students of architecture and social history especially will enjoy- this book. The illustrations to both books are numerous
and well chosen.
A.
M.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 720, 1 May 1953, Page 11
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