The pictorial press: its origin and progress (1885)
Jackson, Mason · London : Hurst and Blackett · leaf 342
far from being realised. The London citizenas he sips his coffee at his villa in the suburbs runs his eyeover the pages of his morning paper, and reads of eventsthat took jjlace yesterday many thousand miles away.Before he starts for business he is informed of what ispassing on every side of the… … 328 The Pictorial Fres.^. of interesting events in far distant countries the freslincssof the news is gone, and the public mind is occupied Avitlilater occurrences. Until somenietliod is invented of sendingsketclies by electricity the pictorial press must endure thisdisadvantage, but in the…
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