The Continental Daily Mail has been celebrating its twenty-first birthday,
and all travelling Britons owe it a debt of gratitude—a holiday on the Continent without it nowadays is difficult to imagine. It is to the present generation what Galignani's Messenger was to our fathers. The paper owes its success to the genius of Lord Northcliffe, who had many difficulties to overcome in establishing it. But he would have been the first to acknowledge his debt to its first editor, Mr. Norman. Angell. Till the paper became successful Mr. Angel' worked day arid night, and was editor and manager combined. In those early days- the future authOr of The Great Illusion never knew what his next task would be. , I used to find him in his office early and late, equally unperturbed when writing a leading, article, when the London " wire " brOke down, when inter- viewing the French members of the staff in connexion with some imagined grievance, or when preventing a strike in the machine-room. om. .
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