designed and built by Mr. Walter and Mr. | acter and flavor; they are roasted before Macdonald, without the aid of architect or open fires. I noticed that there is a comcontractor. The very bricks were made plete staff of cooks, with a chef, who apon Mr. Walter's estate at Bearwood, and pears to take a special pride in his art. By would have made the reconstruction of | Cloak-rooms are provided for the men, an establishment like The Times during its business hours almost an impossibility. The top floor of the building is devoted to the bound files of the paper. Descending to the next, you come to dining-rooms and kitchens-one department for the clerks, another for the compositors and workmen generally. The service is conducted on canteen principles, and as a rule all the employés are glad to have the opportunity of taking their meals here. The kitchens are fitted up with every modern appliance. The meats are not baked, all kinds of joints together, in one oven, as is the case in most English restaurants, to the utter destruction of their individual char each article of clothing being checked by in one, the establishment now assumes the appearance of a bank. The similarity is not without point, for here come in "the sinews of war." In this department there is a telephone in communication with the Royal Exchange, which can be switched off to the offices of all the leading advertising agents in the city. The inquiry department is for the use of persons who choose to have their letters addressed to The Times office, for consulting the files, and other purposesa convenience which the public evidently appreciates. The Times, with all its ramifications and influences, reaching from Printing-house Square to the uttermost ends of the earth, constitutes one of the modern wonders of the world; and nothing about it is more remarkable than the fact that it may be said to have grown up in our day. The art of printing has been literally revolutionized by the present Mr. Walter and Mr. Macdonald. The Times was started in 1785, under the title of the Daily Universal Register, and adopted its present title three years later. It was originated by Mr. John Walter, grandfather of the present chief proprietor, Mr. John Walter, M.P. for Berkshire, who earned for his paper the sobriquet of "The Thunderer" by his bold and fearless attacks upon national abuses, his defense of the Right, and his defiance of all obstructions that the Wrong might in one year (1830) to the government. plant in his way. On the 29th of November, 1814, The Times was printed by steam, the first instance of steam being applied to printing. The Book of Days, Mr. Grant's Newspaper Press, and British Manufacturing Industries contain details of this notable change in the production of newspapers, and the reader who desires to investigate it is referred to these and kindred works. The Times is still a high-priced journal (3d.), is printed on superb paper, and its staff includes some of the ablest men in Europe. It pays princely salaries to its departmental chiefs and foreign correspondents, and stands by its writers with a loyal tenacity. "The Walter Printing-Press," which is capable of printing 22,000 to 24,000 an hour, is the invention of the present Mr. Walter, who supplements his scientific studies and journalistic duties with the onerous labors that belong to a seat in Parliament. The Walter machine was constructed under the superintendence of Mr. Macdonald, who is constantly engaged in working out some new scheme for the reduction of labor and the perfection of the art of printing. It were too great a tax upon these pages to say in how many directions The Times management is engaged; but the Walter succession in Printing-house Square is wonderfully maintained. When a stamp duty was enforced upon If this exaction had been continued, as well as the penny stamp on each paper, The Times, on its present sale and its present number of advertisements, would have had to pay the government over £450,000 a year. I am not in a position to say what the income of The Times is, but taking Mr. Grant's figures for advertisements, and a minimum sale of 70,000 copies, its returns amount to quite £1,036,000. Touching the profits divided on the other journals, the following figures, while they are not authoritative, advertisements, The Times paid £70,000 [Photographed by London Stereoscopic Company.] JOHN DELANE. [Photographed by London Stereoscopic Company.] are pretty generally accepted in journalistic circles as approximately correct: Daily Telegraph, £120,000 a year; Standard, £65,000; Daily News, £30,000; Morning Post, £10,000. Thirty years ago, The Times, which is not given to boasting, stated in an editorial article that its gross income was equal to that of the most flourishing of the German principalities. The chiefs and writers of The Times have little or no personality in connection with Printing-house Square. This is a tradition of the paper, which is jealously maintained. Yet great names crop up in its literary history. Mr. Disraeli wrote for it, under the signature of "Runnymede"; Mr. Vernon Harcourt was "Historicus"; Lord Sidney Godolphin Osborne wrote above the initials "S. G. O." Captain Stirling was at one time its principal leader-writer, and Stirling had Thomas Carlyle for his biographer. Mr. Robert Lowe, while he was ascending the social and political scale, first as member of Parliament, then as cabinet minister, and next as a peer of the realm, wrote editorials for The Times. Mr. Leonard Courtney, member of Parliament for Liskeard, is a member of its staff. The late Mr. John Oxenford, the most accomplished and scholarly dramatic critic of his time, has been succeeded by Mr. Morris, whose father was for many years one of the bestknown managers of The Times. Mr. Oxenford's colleague, Mr. James Davidson, still holds office as musical critic, having in these latter years of his veteran service the assistance of Dr. Francis Hueffer, a musician and critic of considerable distinction. Mr. Abraham Hayward is supposed to be Mr. Chenery's "right hand" in the editorial room. The late Mr. Tom Taylor was for many years the art critic of The Times. M. Blowitz is intimately known by the modern governments of France as its Paris correspondent. In one of Sardou's most recent plays the Anglo-French journalist is said to have been represented on the stage, at an exciting period of the drama, plying his vocation under difficulties. Since Mr. Gladstone himself has been burlesqued on the English stage, M. Blowitz will hardly feel that he is dishonored by similar attentions in Paris. Famous men are not always walking upon paths that are strewn with roses. In these days there are two names more popularly known in connection with The Times than any others. One is that of the late Mr. Delane, and the other that of Dr. William H. Russell. No man in our day wielded a greater power, no man of any day exercised his strength with a higher sense of responsibility, than Mr. John Delane, for thirty-six years editor of The Times, and whose death the press generally regarded as one of the calamities of 1879. Though a hard worker both in society and at his office, and accustomed to keep late hours, nearly always staying at Printing-house Square until The Times went to press, Mr. Delane was a florid, healthy-looking man, more like a |