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 _p
r de foie_ dissembled in a bowl of
bread and milk, would be 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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