New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-09-16
LITERARY
BOSTON, sorEs.

xxAruRrs OF OLD AND sEw-THE oUTCRY AGAINST
REPoRTERs-Tae FATE OF THE SANDWICH
ISLANDS.
grRon A P.eeUIAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRiBosh'l
GosfoN, Sept. A." Old and Ner," for oc-
tober IL hrst OF the magazines in the field. MT na
opens IL with well. deserved talk about the prue
curiosity Of reporters. The {" fifteen dollars W."
men, az Mr. Parton calls certain class OF ne"sp"'..
workers. claim that the country "has reh' +"
49,, his and that. and 40 they look INTO every man
lsen AT doors stand uneasly on barrel top anu
av into wiudows aud then publish the result Oh THESE
velI.bred Investigations. Tney zen US 'ha' N'
Sumner always insisted on paying MS own car
fares as n that an extraordinary uas Vi
character and they tell great many less credtaoie
,h,.s paoapse a man calls himself areporter or
aatec,,ve have other men rights which he bound
10 respcctf Because man must tell, and means 10
tell The truth the whole truth, and nothing out the
truth when he is the witness stapd, ana questioned
nv some one having righteous authority does II follow
mat be must open his nmost soul TO mpertfneut
person Who chooses pretext OF journalism or
police business ask him question: They say an in
reviewer knocked down, in Chicago, by the
man whom he attempted TO interview and MI
Hale hopes this is true As to the rank ofense OF
such mpertinence he says:
We can use no better language than that OF news
paper as widely read as THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE:
asng mperseni questions has grove With alarming
He rc,ins prsoasi cSSeef is ssered nrnas
ss. eliza. e. 1 P SsiSesd and
between legitimate and vulgar tsttle tn:
Sei-behs1ec reporter 10 biush for their profession
This Introductory Talk is followed by characteristic
story from Mr. Hale entitled "The Lost Palace"-the
Palace being palace car, lost IN reckless leap oy
an engineer who undertook to "hy" ravlne' our
sketching Club" goes on; so does "The Way we 1--we
Now-and the linked sweetness" OF them both seems
20 me too long drawn out" II is serious temptation
,-rita a fal with 10 scr
the more copy the pay. j. Bishop Putnam writes
,entertainingy OF King Making In the Sandwich
Islands - comes, the end TO the conclusion that
the Islanders cannot keep the peace without foreign
assistance; and since within ten years foreign nag
wiH undoubtedly fly there, he wonders whether Uncle
Sam will prefer II shall be his own, that Of some other
nation.
paper. long able and deserving thoughtful consid-
Grafton that on The Relations OF the National and
State Governments TO Advanced Education" 1t was
read before the National Educational Association, at
Detroit Aug g. 1874 and we are here presented, from
the authors manuscript with much Iuller report than
has before appeared The address an energetic plea
for public assistance higher walks Of education
Besides these articles Pchards" pleasant love
story, by Mary ]. Penwyn; two or three poems not
especially noticeable, and the excellent reviews OF the
Examiner In the Fine Art Notes reminded how
we not only see naturei through artists but how we
learn 10 see artists, at least to be reminded
Of them when we look at nature. sturdy growth OF
oaks with muscular figures in front Of them will remind
US of Courbet. eolorless but luminous morning OF
early Spring suggests Cor0t Men and women in the
field bending their intelligence the patience Of the
OK make us think OF ldIllet who has taught us the
pathetic dignity OF labor. Wm Hunt by the way calls
Mnett "tbe greatest painter in Europe" Florida
creeks have found in this same VIM Hunt their first
Interpreter La Fargo has learned Newport by heart
think Of him when we look across the hazy
lowlands toward the Landscapes live again on
"a otiH
painter should haunt while we look on the scenes
from which his inspiration drawn. L. C. NJ.