Show LAMB ONCE A journalist at ole T me he was actively en ln E n on the staff of the london post in connection with lord glenes recently published history of that 0 d established london journal the morn ing post it is interesting to recall the fact that at one time char es lamb was on its staff of contributors this gentle essayist wrote largely for a column headed fashionable intel in those day as lamb says eiery morning paper as an es essential estial retainer to its establishment kept an author who was bound to furnish daily a qu of witted paragraphs it was in this capacity that lamb was engaged on the post fur thermo e his contract stimulated that in the chat of the day scandal but above all dress be he should supply six paragraphs a day not one of which wa was to ex aeed seven lines in length and the tor for which was to be 12 cents each in his essay newspapers nev simpers apers tl TI airty five years ago lamb ms to have been rather pleased wit i the s of chat he contributed to the press we me now find that dan stuart his editor entertained a ui terent ferent opinion as to their value As for good charles bar s lamb he said I 1 never could make anything of ha h s writings of politic 03 he knew nothing they were out of it s line of reading and thought and his drollery was vapid when given in short paragraphs fit tor for a newspaper |