Some London Journalists.

Evening Star, Issue 8118, 18 January 1890, Page 1 (Supplement)

Some London Journalists.

There is no more enviable way in which a clever man without much fortune can open the oyster of this world thaa by starting or editing a monthly review filled with °ungrammatical articles by persons of social distinction. Mr James Knowles, of the * Nineteenth Century/ has long lived in almost Oriental magnificence at Queen Anne's Lodge, close by St. James's Park; his summer entertainments being fairy-like in character, and sometimes graced by royalty. Mr Percy Bunting, of the ' Contemporary,' is too much oi a Puritan to seek the social advantages ; but Mr Frank Harris, of 'she 'Fortnightly,' has risen from being a stump-orator in Mr Hyndman's crowd to the position of one of the first talkers and diners-out of the day, and the husband of a fascinating ex-widow with LB,OOO a-year into the bargain. Mr Harry Quilter was already rich and ineffably superior to his own and some other people's opinion before he abandoned the post of. arfc critic in the ' Spectator' for the direction e>i the 'Universal Review.' The latest of these editors is Mr Archibald Grove of the ' New Review.' He was forrasrly known as Mr N. A. Groves, and uudsr that name contested Winchester ia JBS6. He had been brought up to expeot a fortune from an uncle, but the unole left his money elsewhere, and Mr Groves determined »o do for himself what his uncle ought to have done for him. He changed his name to Grove, and after starting a novel and brilliant idea in commerce—that of an itinerant Atlantic liner fitted up as a vast sample-room, with (esthetic show women to push the wares in the world's ports—he took vigorously to journalism, commencing on the ' Daily News,' and going off to edit a press agtncy which supplies wit and persiflage to eountry papers on the syndicate system. Then he bethought hha of the idea of the ' New Review,'which has to give the public for Gel nearly as much as what the 'Nineteenth Century ' and the others give for half a. crown. This enterprise ha 3 prospered soexceedingly that the dapper good-looking young gentleman has started as a candidate for an extensive metropolitan constituency, and recently he took to wife the beautiful widow of Mr Edmund Gurney, who was the co-worker with Mr Frederic Myers in founding that " Society for Psychical Research " which has given occasion to so much amusiu« and sarcastic "copy" in journals hard-up for more enlivening matter.