Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1878 — English Journalists. [ARTICLE]

English Journalists.

Many journalists of the present day dictate their work to short-hand writers. One of the most prolific writers on the Daily Telegraph dictates every line of his*work. He has a cautious habit of composition. He mak:,s a point of producing his leader at the office every night. He takes off his coat, waistcoat and boots, lights his pipe and walks about the room, and in an hour his article is finished. Now and then it is completed in half that time. Lucy, of the Daily News, dictates the whole of his matter. Yates hardly ever writes a line. His short-hand clerk is ever at hia elbow. 1 Several men have tided to bring the type-writer into use, but only Farjeon has been able to achieve success with it, and Farjeon was originally a printer; so that the mechanical character of the work bothered him less at the outset is the case with most writers. Then the “copy” is not altogether pleasant to read, being all capital letters. —London Cor. New York Times.