The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-10-17

La. and shades of difference in qu'cRness
- ,,arcention and capacity for understood
=. An article suited for Mr.. Hunni-
.,, f naner would be out of place in the
D;eratrb. and TO what degree in the as
cendinp scale shall he proceedf Shall ne
atom when he gets up to given level on MS
own estimate This has not been the prac-
tice of regular writer's in the Dispdc" g 81,
this irregular has been reader. M NJ
have written up to the highest stanaat so
and thereby educated those reaoeL9 "nO
needed it in approaches to their leve: n, n n
onnet;te accustomed to Falernlan WIZ NV
hp oftsrwards Satisfied with Ordlnaire'
.ho,rh ono NAV not be able analytlcally 10
tolI tbe difference. 1t is presumption mos
offensive In a writer for general clrcuia,'on
n assume the necessity of writing Gown "
INV riyen level to be understood. NO 1ian
can write anything worth reading "n In uv
not give his readers credit 1or sonie &c A the;r
ledge. and the higher his estimatS u a .
intelligence, if he himself nav th ~ his
city, the higher will be me ne, go, rrortbv tbe
productions. Every lourI,,alis. w. CO.. ;yboro
name has in mind the lntelileeh. row, ill.,: ill.,:
be knows to be scattered among 'ne nin
A writer on science thinks only Oh the na
+ora If that science; If ne have tnelr up
nroval, that of the masses is secured. Du'
bother knowledge without the skill 10 I'M.
nsrt it. nor literary attainments Wlc1iou'
the needful tact, is sufficient tor journal
list :: something may be abated IN el!her OF
10th of the former if the deficiency IS sup
nl;ed bv a corresponding abundance OF tine
latter. Half million was subscribed 10
start the London Daily Ne,os, with Charles
Dickens as editor-in-chief, but in year
the money was all gone, and the circulation
also, The New York World was begun
with magnificent prospects, but litterateurs
of the calibre Of Richard Grant Mhlte
smotbered it in the editorial chair. Ben,
nett has neither literary culture, political
honesty. nor any quality higher than
craftiness, vet the Herald lisa splendid sue
cess. It was his tact and enterprise that
made the American newspaper press the
cheapest and most popular in the world.
Newspapers are not pored over nor even
read with the patience given to any other
literature. They are snatched up, and If
in rapid glance nothing in line or two
of any of its paragraphs has force enough
to keep the eye for moment fixed, the
paper is passed over and dropped, as having
nothing in it. Conciseness,. therefore, is
the first requisite in daily; and to be
concise, the style must be elliptical, not
verbose; outlined by sketch, not delinea-
tive; suggestive, not explanatory. Core
spending intelligence is pre-supposed in
the reader to supply ellipses, to fill in out
lines, to follow up suggestions and in pro-
portion to the ability of the writer and
reader to do each his proper part, will the
one excel and the other be interested.
This is long introduction to a short an
swer, but the hints it contains may be
useful.
First. The answer to the fair objectress
to Latin phrase (for it is from lady's
pen) is a bow of submission.
Second. The question What is cold
frame 2" is answered by asking another.
Where would explanations end if any is
needed here !? .
Third. The phrase not underStanded OF
the people is quoted from the twenty fourth
of the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion
which were framed in the time of Edward
VI, and the phraseology is preserved, and
the Articles are now so printed in every
prayer-book of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, both American and English. To
have modernized the phrase would have
destroyed its aptness, and it was not put in
quotation marks because readers were
credited with the knowledge whence it had
been taken. W.