Copy 1, Volume 1

The fourth estate : contributions towards a history of newspapers, and of the liberty of the press / by F. Knight Hunt. In two vols.

  • Frederick Knight Hunt
Date:
1850
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Credit: The fourth estate : contributions towards a history of newspapers, and of the liberty of the press / by F. Knight Hunt. In two vols. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f CONTENTS.—VOL. I. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. 'WHAT IS THE FOURTH ESTATE? Newspapers a necessity of modem civilized life. The World brought by them to the breakfast-table, to amuse and to teach the reader. What Newspapers contain. Their History hitherto unwritten. The Journalist has no leisure. The interest and importance of the subject. Dr. Johnson. Lords Mansfield and Lyndhurst. Canning. Thiers. Macaulay. Southey. Bulwer. Captain Marryatt. The English Opium-Eater. The power and value of the Press have made it a Fourth Estate. page 1 CHAPTER II. NEWS - LETTERS AND NEWS-WRITERS—FORERUNNERS OF NEWSPAPERS. Date of the First English Newspaper. Its Author, and his craft. What constitutes a Newspaper. The News-letters. Ben Jonson’s Sketch of the News-writer’s Office. The Staple of News. Cavaliers and Roundheads, and the modes of circulating News. CromweU at the Blue Boar, Holbom. Coffee and News-letters at Cambridge. Titus Oates and Mr. Coleman. Tragic End of a News-writer. The Newspaper Forgery and its Detection. Dr. Johnson and the Acta Diuma. Venice and its Gazettes. 9
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