[Printed pamphlet.] Revelations from Printing-House Square. Is the Anonymous System a Security for the Purity and Independence of the Press? A Question for The Times Newspaper. By W. Hargreaves.

32pp., 8vo. Disbound. On aged and worn paper, with title leaf detached. Hargreaves begins the pamphlet by stating his case: 'The real issue involved is, not whether the "impersonality" of the Press, as illustrated by the management of the Times, is fair and acceptable to a few prominent politicians, but whether it is useful and beneficial to the community at large. [...] I accept the system of anonymous journalism as the unquestionable right of all who choose to practice it - claiming only in return, as one of the public, the right of freely canvassing the interest which newspaper readers have in the system. | It is proposed to confine the discussion to the case of the Times, because that journal will be admitted to have been, in every way, the most illustrious example of the anonymous system, and because it has placed repeatedly on record the grounds on which it defends and justifies the principle of "impersonal writing."'' The pamphlet concludes: 'The argument so often put forth by the Times, that the anonymous system in England is advantageous, because it allows the "Journal" to speak instead of the individual, has entirely broken down, since we have discovered, that the Government of the day finds something more than an impersonal abstraction in Printing-House Square - that they find there human entities, subject to all the frailties of our fallen nature, and liable to all those influences which are so potent with ordinary men.' The pamphlet has now become uncommon.