An interesting libel suit has occupied n of Mr. Justice Darling and week.. It was brought by Mr. Frederick Moy Thomas—son of. the well-known dramatic critic and author, who is now living in retirement at Eastbourne—against Mr. H. W. Lucey, sometime editor of the " Daily News" and for many years "Toby, M.
P.," of: Punch. \The ground of the action was a v bitter review of Mr. F. Moy Thomas's biography of the late Sir John Robinson, literary manager of the " Daily Nows," issued under the title of "Fifty Yeats of Fleet Street." A fine literary flavour was given to the trial by reason that Mr. Henry Fielding Dickens, K.C., the son of the great novelist, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Augustine Birrell for the defendant, while the case was naturally of the kind in which' Sir Charles Darling, who poses as the humourist of
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