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CONTENTS
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Early types 272
William Leggett and his editorials 272
Collections of editorials 272
Circulation of editorials through other means 272
Improvement in editorials 273
Wider range of subjects 273
Improvement in facilities 274
Extension of newspaper plant 275
Freedom from errors of fact in editorials 275
Independence in treatment 276
The editorial impersonal 276
The editorial "we" 276
The deadly parallel 277
John Bright and The Times 277
Editorial dilemmas 278
Editorials in absentia 278
Editorial changes of manuscript 278
The Edinburgh Review 278
Carlyle, Napier, and Jeffrey 279
Dickens and Mrs. Gaskell 279
Hazlitt on editors 280
Delane and Henry Reeve 280
"Editorial tinkering" in Paris 280
Howells and the Atlantic 280
Blanchard Jerrold and Catling 281
Other difficulties between editors and contributors 281
Napier and Brougham 281
Napier and Dickens 282
Napier, Brougham, Macaulay, and the Whigs 283
Troubles of the editors of the Edinburgh typical 283
The editorial as historical material 284
"The Twelve Labors of an Editor" 285
To readers, the editorial is "the paper" 286
Chapter XII
Criticism and the Critic
Difficulty in using criticism as historical material 287
No agreement concerning functions of criticism 287
Absence of recognized standards 288
Theory of Matthew Arnold 288
The New Laokoon 289
Theory of Bliss Perry 289
The ideal critic 289