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Circumventing Parliament		162
Dr. Johnson as reporter		163
His debates		164
Their limitations for the historian		164
John Wilkes and parliamentary reporting		166
Present theory of parliamentary reporting		167
Difficulties of reporting		167
Position of provincial reporters		167
Development of organization of reporting		168
Social status of reporters		169
General limitations of reporting		170
Difficulties with speakers		170
Variations between Hansard and collected speeches		170
"Reporting speeches which never were made"		171
Verbatim reports		172
Comparative merits of different forms of reports		172
Decline of interest in verbatim reports		173
Explanation of opposition of Parliament to reporters		174
Parliament accepts reporters		174
Reporters in Congress		174
Right of the public to know the business of the public		174
Three general systems of reporting		175
Reporting in the hands of the press		175
Official reporting		175
Contract system		175
Parliamentary reports on reporting		175
Press reports and parliamentary records		176
Comparative advantages		176
"Man always to be blest"		176
Objections to reporting at first general		177
Kossuth and reporting		177
Reporters and court trials		178
J. G. Bennett and court reporting		178
Reporters not alone responsible for unreliable reports		179
Real service may be rendered justice by reporters		179
Chapter VIII
The Special Correspondent
Many forms of special correspondence		180
The Letters of Junius		180
Cramped opportunities of early papers		180
Material often contributed by prominent men		181
Development of reporter into special correspondent		181