After its appearance in the London Magazine, of which Hood was then sub-editor, he wrote Lamb a letter on coarse paper purporting to come from a grateful beggar; Lamb did not admit the discovery of the perpetrator of the joke, but soon afterwards Lamb called on Hood when he was ill, and a friendship followed to which we owe Hood's charming recollections of Lambamong the best that were written of him by any one.

On the day I ate at the restaurant, my cicerone pointed out at the dining table two professors of the University faculty, a lawyer in good standing, a photographer, and a sub-editor of one of the daily papers, who were his personal acquaintances.

From 1848 to 1853 he was sub-editor of the Economist newspaper, and in his first important work, "Social Statics," published in 1850, he developed the ethical and sociological ideas which had been set forth in his published letters.

I remember once a young sub-editor had got as far as, "The cry is still" when I took him by the throat.

Each sub-editor is bent over his little lot of news.

Another sub-editor pieces together an interview about the approaching comet.

[Footnote A: James, having read the above in proof, now protests he never called me a peasant lad: that being a decoration by the sub-editor.

Journalists do control public opinion; but it is not controlled by the arguments they publishit is controlled by the arguments between the editor and sub-editor, which they do not publish.

But having worked in this paper for just over three years as a sub-editor, I recall that Dr Rebello, as its editor, contributed significantly to the chorus for the twin demand.

Rajan did seem a bit embarassed to make the offer of Rs 300 as the payment for a trainee sub-editor.

It's worth recalling, to put the issue in context: "Since October 1987 (that is, till mid-February 1988), one chief sub-editor, one sports sub-editor, two reporters, a cartoonist and a correspondent resigned from the Herald.

Unable to give him a suitable reply, I transferred the call to the concerned sub-editor, who simply snapped back and insisted that the correspondent need not bother about his report and, that, the report would appear only when there space was available in the paper!

The sub-editor's reply, like his news sense, left me baffled.

A lot has happened since my time as writer and sub-editor for The Herald's international edition.

The fact that it has been a part of the Goan social and political landscape for the last twenty years is, if nothing more, testament to its success within the community. Chapter 10: Growing up with the Herald... Visvas Paul D KarraVPDK was an outspoken sub-editor at the Herald, where he also covered sports for the daily's special supplement.

But I was not prepared for all this when I applied for the job of a sub-editor.

A few weeks after I was formally accepted at trainee-sub-editor a local farmer, this was before the advent of progressive farmers, or whatever they call them these days, horticulturists and what not...

On the few occasions we, the humble proof-readers, particularly Jack, ventured to show our mastery in punctuation and grammar, the concerned sub-editor would get furious, of course in a playful way.

A quarter of a century ago a sub-editor, opening his mail, could identify the Melbourne Argus, the Sydney Morning Herald, or the Cape Times as far as he could see them.

'And do you know, it all came of her letter to one of the High School ladies, who is sister to the sub-editor, such a clever, superior girl!

By the Sub-Editor II.

Sub-Editor: CHRISTINE M. MURRELL PREFACE.

By the Sub-Editor XII.

" This musical composition had been rehearsed the week previous in the presence of a select party of amateurs and critics, and had been pronounced, by the sub-editor of a weekly paper, "remarkable for its breadth and color."

It is a specimen of the small-print news with which the rather young Assistant Sub-Editor of The Dullandshire Chronicle (established 1763) is permitted, occasionally, to divert those of The Chronicle's subscribers who take an intelligent interest in continental affairs.