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CONTENTS
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New interests of the historian 229
Adaptation of correspondent to new conditions 230
Archibald Forbes and his conception of the ideal war correspondent 231
Chapter X
The Interview
The interview apparently recent 233
Dr. Johnson and George III 234
Attitude of historian towards interview 234
Discredit attached to it as historical material 234
Interviews sought with persons momentarily prominent 234
Prepared interviews 235
Inspired interviews 235
Repudiated interviews 236
De Blowitz and Count Münster 236
The Emperor William interview and the Century 236
Emperor William and the Daily Telegraph 236
Edited interviews 237
Difficulties on the side of the press 237
Faked interviews 238
Impatience with faked interviews 238
Interviewing by intuition 239
Reversible interviews 239
The wooden interview 239
The stolen interview 239
The interviewer at the Second Hague Conference 239
Interview sought for definite ends 240
Von Bülow and the interview 240
Von Bissing and the interview 240
Interviews sought by officials 240
The politician and the interview 240
The interview for "domestic consumption" 241
The social interview 241
General lack of authoritativeness of interview 242
Distrust of form given it 242
National prejudices against the interview 243
Interview distrusted because of object 243
Interviewers often not specially qualified 243
Troubles of interviewers 244
Henry James on the interview 244
Opposition of medical profession 245
Difficulties put in way of interviewers 245
Prejudice against them 246