John Bull's Store
John Bull's Store is an article published in The Tatler on 3 february 1904.
John Bull's Store
A PATRIOTIC POET
Mr. B. Fletcher Robinson, editor of the Daily Express and author of "John Bull's Store".
Of all the fiscal ditties for which Mr. Chamberlain's proposed policy has been responsible the most popular is certainly "John Bull's Store." The author of this stirring ballad, Mr. Fletcher Robinson, is familiar to the public as the collaborator with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in The Hound of the Baskervilles and as the author of many magazine stories and articles, but probably it is not generally known outside Fleet Street that he is also the editor of the Daily Express. He is a great genial giant, not much over thirty, with fair hair and an orange-coloured moustache, and deep-set grey eyes. He is an old Cambridge "Rugger blue" and has edited an excellent book on football. Like so many successful journalists he was originally intended for a barrister, and it was while waiting for briefs that Mr. Robinson first attracted the attention of Mr. Arthur Pearson by some verses in Pearson's Magazine. On the strength of those Mr. Pearson offered the young barrister the post of war correspondent to the Daily Express in Cape Town. When the war ended he was summoned home to take up a position on the Express staff, the paper which he so admirably edits to-day.
