I have only just time for a few lines to say that I have not been unmindful of your request, but it is difficult among our numerous publications to select one suitable for your purpose[1] All the daily papers would be open to the same objection as the Times, with the further disadvantage of the English of some not being of the best - the Register[2] our other Catholic paper is much less heavyp2than the Tablet, but the interest is local & hardly likely to attract your pupils - Each trade has its own paper, some such as the Builder & Architect & British Mechanic are very good, but then they again would not be interesting to all, and the mass of trade advertisements greatly increases the weight -
Chambers Journal & All the Year Round are weekly papers well written & much read, but I see they have increased the stories which may be an objection, but as you know in publications of that class they would sure to be moral - I also send you a number of Pall Mall Budget which is thep3weekly resumé of a daily paper. Much read even by Catholics - it is rather the organ of the intellectual & fashionable "isms" but not very objectionably so, I have marked with a cross one article which will tell you what I mean, the two others I think you would find very entertaining for your class if you could afford the subscription, perhaps you would find the Illustrated all you could wish, it is well written the "Echos" are by G.A. Sala who has a great taste for hunting up words & the novelettes are good, - the illustrations would be a help to beginners and there is nothing in the principles of the paper that could offend any one seriously - If none of these willp4do, send me a line and I will try and hunt up something else - We are just in the midst of our moving, we hope to be in our own home on Tuesday so I must ask you to excuse haste & bad writing -
