Further sensation and dislocation was caused in the Press world by
the sudden and dramatic RAPPROCHEMENT which took place between the
Angel-Editor of the SCRUTATOR and the Angel-Editor of the ANGLIAN
REVIEW, who not only ceased to criticize and disparage the tone
and tendencies of each other's publication, but agreed to exchange
editorships for alternating periods. Here again public support
was not on the side of the angels; constant readers of the
SCRUTATOR complained bitterly of the strong meat which was thrust
upon them at fitful intervals in place of the almost vegetarian
diet to which they had become confidently accustomed; even those
who were not mentally averse to strong meat as a separate course
were pardonably annoyed at being supplied with it in the pages of
the SCRUTATOR. To be suddenly confronted with a pungent herring
salad when one had attuned oneself to tea and toast, or to
discover a richly truffled segment of PAT? DE FOIE dissembled in a
bowl of bread and milk, would he an experience that might upset
the equanimity of the most placidly disposed mortal. An equally
vehement outcry arose from the regular subscribers of the ANGLIAN
REVIEW who protested against being served from time to time with
literary fare which no young person of sixteen could possibly want
to devour in secret.
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