Show LAMB ONCE A journalist at one time he was actively F engaged n on the staff of the london post in connection with lord gleneske Glenes ks recently published history of that old established london journal the morning post it Is interesting to recall the fact that at one time charles lamb was on its ita staff of contributors this gentle essayist wrote largely tor for a column headed beaded fashionable intelligence li Il gence in those day as lamb bays every morning paper an aa an essential retainer to its establishment kept an a author u thor who was bound to furnish dally a quati quantum tum of witted paragraphs it was in this capacity that lamb was wall engaged on the post furthermore his bis contract stipulated that in the chat of the day scandal but above all dress he should supply six paragraphs a day not one of which was to exceed seven lines in length and tb the payment for which was to be 12 cents each in his essay newspapers thirty five years ago lamb seems to have been rather pleased with the sticks of chat he be contributed to the press we now find that din dan stuart his editor entertained a different opinion as to their value As tor for good charles lamb he said 1 I never could make anything of tits his writings of politics he knew nothing they were out of his bis line of reading and thought and his di was vapid when given in short paragraphs fit for a newspaper |