The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-11-21

| nant party. me MTcuTH SuHudy 1tWeS luc
Courier and the Leader are democratic. The
Despatch, Era and the Clipper are republican,
The clipper Is q sort OF sporting paper for the
roughs as Wiikes' spirit Of The Times Is for the
i higher strata OF society. Though both rad cal
4 and sporting papers There IL no comparison In the
ability ana style or the matter in them. The spirit
! Qf the Tnes SHOWS vigorous intellect, and not
unlrequenty It's leading articles are written in .
! comprehensive and stalesmanke manner. The
Leader is one OF the best OF the New York weekcs,
ana mas higher tone and liner literary taste than
most the Others. IL belongs 10 and Is under the
management OF Mayor Hall. and many OF the arti-
Giles are from his Versatile pen. Some OF the leading
articles IN our Sunday political journals, IN the
Mercury and Tsntes, for example are ably written
| The New Ork Cttt.en, VITA which tn, Round Ia0e
has been united, and whcn Is edited by Mr. R0Ose-
welt, OF the most crelitaDle vi all our week.
lies. The political ana sporting articles, as well as
the sllicty literary CONTRIBUTIONS, able and
scholarly.
Besides these nearly all the leading daily journals
of this city publish weekes made up chiefly Of matter
from the DANES, but With additional mater generally
! to sult country Subscribers There Is the WEEKLY
| HERALD, Trs6uae Times, W0iid, Necs, sun,
Iost aad Express. IN n we have number or week
lies having special characterized gl0us, scientific,
| hnaucia spiritual phllosophc, or devoted to some
particular class or interest," the Sc.eitttc Anse,l-
| caa Mum Company, ed tors aid proprietors,
gives practical Information science, art. mecn an
| les, chemistry and manufactures, IL a most useful
publication, Is admirably managed anu timely Illus
trated. Inc Stocc.o-d,r, by Mr. J. r. Dinsmore Is
the best record oil financial matters, mining indus
try ana railway alars, anu Is rsplee with inforna-
ton useful TO the commercial community. 1t
Is not an organ " any party or clique,
and to the merchant, stockoroker ana business
1t is invaluable. The Army AMI Macy Journal fur
nisnes Information OF all movements and things IN
terestng to military and naval men, besides giving
excellent articles on war questions and tactics One
OF the best articles we nave seen on the surrender
OF Metz Is IN The number now before Us. Inc COM
nle,cial and Financial Chroncts is, like the Stocl
holder, valuable paper for business men, The
JetciSh Times aud the HebreD Leader arc Us their
titles imply, organs OF Jewish citlzens and with
plenty Oh religious mater mix UP politics and news
for their realers. The IadeDendent. Henry G.
Bowen, publisher and proprietor, Is political and
| religious lour.al known Tor It's radlcallsm In
| politics and as the representative Of MOL
ern New England Pultanlsm IN religion.
! 1t is conducted with unduubted ability. The wrl-
ters for 1t mostly are OF learning and distinc-
tion. trencnant artlcle IN the number OF Novem-
Der is on CUBA ana the cruel policy of the United
States toward the Cubans, from the pen OF The Hon.
| Henry Wilson.
The number and variety Of these weekly papers
with a specially are too great 10 notice all their
pecuartes within the limits or this article There
| are the Tu'J, Fed ana Farm, by s. ID. d b. q.
| Bruce, and Mo0re's Ruiul Ne,o Yorker, both de-
voted to agriculture, rural nfe, science and art as
| applied to these, and having in addition great
| medley OF interesting reading. There arc TWO
weekly papers published specially Tor our Celtic
| naturalized clzens-she Aisn-A'nertcan, by
Lynch Cole d Meenan and the Irish
citizen, by John Mitchell The Scotch have
their representative organ also in the ScOttsIt-
American Jou,,sal and the British In the New York
Al6lon. There are organs for the French, Italian,
Spanish, German and people OF other natonalities;
and there are Two prominent organs Tor the enamel.
patton OF American women. namely-the Revolution,
| edited by Mrs. Billiard, and woodruff d. C!atin's
| Weekly. As to the religious press, every sect has
| oae representative more. There are the Eptsco.
Dal.dn, Evangelist, Christian Advocate and Jour-
1.a Catholic Mn1or, the New York Tablet, New York
| Observer, the Adulace Boston P.to, church Jour-
nal, Ffeepad,iS Journal, Protestant Churclnaan 70,
Methodist and a host OF others. The SpirItualists
| have several organs. and among them are the BIN
aer or Liyht, published at Boston, and the ReltgiO-
Philosophical Journal published at Chicago which
are quite characteristic OF the speculative, magi-
native, soaring and inflated Ideas OF the East aud
| West. Then we have number OF weekly Journals
which are sui 0eneris. Puchiasell0 IS comic illus.
| trated paper aircr the manner OF the London
| Punch, and in general Is hardly Interior In humor
to It's prototype. But neither the English nor
Americans excel in humorous illustrations as the
Italians do. The Home Journal Is par excellence,
the paper OF fashionable gossip 1t sums up, how
ever great variety OF light interesting reading IN
the form ofsnort stories and art items. The AeOpo
luan Record, John Mualy editor, combines politics
with literature, art and science. 1t Is thoroughly
| democratic but, in addition to the political art-
cles, 1t furnishes mass OF varied and Instructive
! reading The Nation is a sort OF weekly review on
small scale, taking cognizance OF current events
and topics in sold, but short articles and a re-
spectacle publication. But we might go almost
al uytnttum were we to notice all the wecklies Of
! when this country Ia SO prolific.
There one class OF weekly periodicals, however,
which we will briefly refer to, because that repre-
the prevailing taste Of the mass OF America
readers more than any other. 1t comprises such
papers as the Yankee Blade, the Western World the
True FaO GledS0Ws Literary Companion and
others OF the same character. They contain mostly
light wishy-washy. romantic novels and tales, with
sort Of ola 7)0dridG Of everything. The publica-
tons named come from Boston, which has been
manly the source and is still the hotbed OF such
literary trash This kind OF literature II 1t be worthy
the name, has done more than anything else
to pervert the taste and to dem0raize society,
especially create false AMI demoralizlng ideas of
life in young girls, whose minds, when not other
| wise directed crave for that which is exciting and
| extravagantly sentimental The publishers know
what suits the popular taste, and pander to that.
| There Is, as is well known, q class OF educated
| and more highly cultivated people in Boston
and New England that this kind OF mental
| food does not suit, but IL Is, unfortunately
| the mass Of the half educated-the non
school educatcd-people that devour the trash.
| 1t is the same to a great extent throughout
| the republic New England has exercised power
iui influence In this respect as In Others and,
happily. ba.elul one. Where is the remcdyS How
| can we elevate the taste OF Tho American people
How can the standard or our periodical literature be
! raised? These are Important questions. We must
begin with the schools--rase the STANDARD OF educa
ton make 1t more thorough than general and more