Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-11-15

Secretary of the Commonwealth.

JOURNALISTIC HEROES The Louisville
Courier-Journal discourses in this odd way
about the heroes of the romance OF the future:
The hero Of the coming American novel will
be journalist. The long haired artist and the
author who parts bis locks in the middle have
been trotting up and down the highways and
by-ways Of English, French and German fiction
until people are no longer curious about Bohe-
mia and the second heavens. They have had
their fill Of Keuensler laben. The struggles and
sorrows Of a man with picture or poem are al
most as familiar and as great bore as the
plants OF a man with grievance. We know
all about Mr.. Vance, the painter, and Mr. Cop
perheld, the writer, and what Buiwer and Dick
ems have left unsad on the subject OF art and
attics IS peneOusly laid open to us by Herr Fret
tag and Mime George Sand, to say nothing of their
predecessors the sentmentalists of the schools Of
Rousseau and Goethe. The world of culture
with its SenSibilitieS and aspirations, will always
be fruitful source oil creative suggestion and
popular interest. But culture changes its con.
ditiOns and forms. As journalism becomes a
more intimate, integral part of polite thought
and action, and at the same time a more posi-
tive influence upon ideas, manners and customs;
as it increases in wealth and reSpeCtability; as
its dramats persona are taken from among the
more attractive classes of society; as the per-
sonal exploits and achievements of these are
elevated and multiplied, the theme will i'm
press itself upon the Imagination Of the many
who read, and be reflected in the pages
of those who write to be read; so that,
il there be an American novel, its hero is
sure to be a journalist. Indeed the lives
of many of our most successful editors are emf
nently stirring and romantic, and the story of
any one of them could not fail 10 fire the fancy
of the rising generation of novel readers telling
how Samson, who came to the city with brown
paper parcel under his arm, sought and secured
employment on the Daily Blowpipe at three dol
lars week, walloped his man eight days in
seven, to the position of fighting editor, then
managing editor then editor in chief and pro-
prietor, with an income of $50 600 a year and
broken nose; showing how Hercules, who, at
the very outset of his newspaper cXpe-
rience, was fallen upon by all the poet
esses and actresses, resisted tine blandish-
ments of beauty and devoted his noble talents
and energies in spiking the guns Of the corrup-
tionistS and was promoted in conseq uence, for
probty and valor, until now, like a witch astride
a brOpmstick, he rides the whrlWind and guides
the storm in the great city OF Eatanyille, show
ing how little Jack the giant killer saved his
country by the writing Of three lines to a tele-
graphic dispatch, which announced that Thomp-
son had been declared elected constable by gi-
gantic frauds, aud how FitZ- Gibbon, the great
phianthropic Journalist, fitted out fat at his
own expense, and placed Capt Lemue CULVER
in charge of it, to go in quest of the erudite DR..
PangosS, lost in the wds OF Patagonia! Tic
man who says that the hero of the coming
American novel will not be journalist, is sim
ply-an asS.-LouiS0ale COrier-Jouaal.