New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-12-13

peace of mind. both of the victim whom he
scarifes and scalps, and Of his w0uld-be reader.
with whose sanity also he trifies Not yet has
the style of the Wild West been adopted in Print
ing House Square, nor any approach to 1t. The
cross-heads are what they should be, guide-posts
and no more.
These matters are, fear, too technical for the
reader unless he be journalist and omit many
more which might be mentioned. II is perhaps
enough to say that the notifications In the make
up OF the Leading Journal are very numerous. and
almost all for the better. They make 1t more
readable just as the notifications in the choice
of subjects to be handled and the diversifcation
of the news, often with some improvement in the
quality Of it also, make it more complete, and
better epitome of the worlds history Of the day
before. Trey are TO be put to the credit OF the
new Manager, Mr. Moberly Bell. Mr.. Bell used TO
be the Cairo correspondent Of this paper lie
was much more than that. He and believe his
father before him, were English merchants in
Cairo. The present Mr.. Bell found that politics
had q good deal to do with business in Egypt
lie gave his mind TO them also, and took to ex-
pressing it with much force and effect in London
He impressed his views not loss strongly on the
rulers Of Egypt, native and foreign. He is, In
sense the author of the English policy on the Nile
or OF what is best in it. Sonic years ago he re-
turned home, and presently he became Manager
of The Times" greater post than governing
Egypt, or helping govern it,
To him it has been permitted to accomplish what
no predecessor attempted. He has modernized
The Times" He has not had, judge, quite
free hand the wonder is that he has been allowed
to have ~ much of his own way in an office
where the customs are Of cast-iron; or so long
were / will give you an instance. II anybody
were asked to say what domestic topic had been
uppermost in this kingdom for twenty years past
he would answer-everybody would answer-lre-
land That is what the minds of those who con-
Germ themselves with politics have teen fixed on
That is what they would turn to first. gen.
orally first, and read most of. WE'LL it is rule
in the office to print Irish dispatches in solid
minion; the smallest type used in the news-coumns
Of the paper. To this it has adhered all through
and still adheres sometimes on great occasions
going so far as to "lcad" column or part Of
column.
The same rule applied to London matter and TO
provincial matter, and for long time no change
was tolerated in this direction either. There
would he columns in loaded bourgeois from India
or Hungary, or some spot on the earth which the
average English reader did not care two straws
for What went in his own country, at his
own door, of tire first interest and Importance to
himself, was served up TO him in this obscure and
half-readable form He had to make an effort to
read it, If there was an exception, 1t was long
string of names at Drawing Room or Levee or
State Ball The rule is still, apparently, what it
was but the stringency of it is relaxed in some
cases it is ingeniously evaded The reporter is
kept down to minion, but such occasions as a
Gas Strike or Dock Strike with the fate Of
London trembling in the balance, Correspondent
is turned on. more than one, and it is held
permissible to print his communication in large
type l do not suppose it possible to convey to the
American mind notion of the binding force of
tradition and precedent in this country, and will
not multiply instances We in America, suppose,
should be apt to give prominence to news in pro-
portion to its real Importance. and not be gov
erned entirely by questions of geographical dis
tribution, or by what our forefathers had done in
the last century. All i wish to insist on is that
there has been a great improvement, and that
the spirit of improvement entered into the paper
with Mr.. Bell, and remains in. lie is not editor :
| he is manager As for editing, | never heard Of
| any reader Of any newspaper who could not edit
| it much better than the editor. G. w. S.