LONDON JOURNALISTIC GOSSIP.

Auckland Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2335, 10 September 1877, Page 3

LONDON JOURNALISTIC GOSSIP.

Our London correspondent writes : —"lf every other trade and profession is chill, journalists still flourish. The demand for periodical literature is ever on the increase, and the public maw is insatiable. Young England reads everything it can get its paw on, and new journals still continue to appear, in spite of the failure of multitudes that have gone before them. Sergeant Cox, one of tlio most successful of journalists, financially speaking, at the annual dinner of the Newsvendors' Benevolent Association the other day, said that in his opinion the greatest mistake of newspapers was to imitate others which are already .successful. What they ought to do was to strike out some fresh path of their own, and occupy some field not already taken up, or "pegged out," as you would say. Mr Stuart Glennie (who, as special correspondent of the "Standard," got himself talked about some months ago, owing to a quarrel he had—a veritable instance of nose-Bflliiug—with Mr Archibald Forbes,of the " jDaily News, has issued a prospectus of anew monthly, which lie proposes to bring orrt, wider the title of "Progress." Then Mr Ernest Hart, editor of the "British Medical Journal " and leader writer on the "Pall Mall Gazette," in conjunction with Mr AJsager Hay Hill, is talking about anew weekly, to be called " Common Sense." A third venture, of which there are rumours, is a penny weekly satirical rag, with the title of " Humbug," the idea being allegorically depicted on the cover by a man laughing behind a serious mask. This last is an idea of two young Metropolitan journalists, who have superfluous steam and some coins to get rid of.