The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1898-08-13
WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS.
From The Mirror. Of st. Louis. ]

take the form Of monthly periodicals.
The Outlook fret made the change. The
Independent is following suit and the
Critic, loo, is to be monthly. That
phenomenally banal literary giant
Mr.. Frank A Munsey. has declared
that the weekly is dead. because he has
made fortune through the metamor-
phoeis of bad weekly into worse
monthly. But the weekly, that is the
high-class weekly. will not die. 1t al
ways will appeal 10 the people who want
thought and information, as distinct
from the thrill OF daily sensaiionalism
and the kindergarten appeal OF pictures.
One might find confirmation OF Mr..
Munsey's opinion in the collapse OF the
Arkell enterprises, but it seems to me
that the Arkell papers failed because
they were conducted without regard to
anything but commercisIism. They did
not come up 10 the demand OF the many
for mere amusement, and they had
neither the dignity OF attitude or the
quality Of thought, which the more rea
sonable people demand. Arkeil ran
his papers with the literary and artistic
features as considerations inferior TO
politics and profit. Leslie's Weekly and
Judge were regarded rs hopelessly per
functory in their attempt to gratlfy any
aesthetic instinct in the public. Puck
has deteriorated dismally since the
deaths of Keppler, the cartoonist, and
the lovable Bunner, the editor. i note,
however, that Life. gentleman's pa
per. is prosperous. Golfers Weekly
has come to the front because Of it's lit
erary qualities and its special iilustra-
tione by the best artists. Harper's
Weekly remains standard publication
and so does the Bazaar, and
both are giving no evidence OF falling
out Of the public regard. Tne Nation
still holds its own as very high-toned.
il somew hat pessimistic, journal OF CON-
ment upon the higher things OF life.
The Argonaut. of San Francisco is
weekly that has long had powerful
influence among people who can appre-
ciate good reading and want the OF inion
Of people of authority on the issues OF
the day.
Town Topics, though journal OF So
ciety, is not losing readere, because it is
a weekly in which can always be found
sound criticism, the best Of the lighter
work Of the youcg poets and paragraph
ere, and the only specimens OF the
American type of TIE peculiarly Frsnchy
short story.
The Mirror is another weekly that has
no cause 10 complain Of lack OF patron
age. because it eschews illustrations.
The Mirror, like all the weeklies have
m .ntioned as not justifying the theory
that the weekly is effete, makes appeal
70 a necessary limited class of thinking
people. and it commands advertising by
reason OF the fact that its readers have
time to read, and the money with which
to buy things advertised in it's columns.
I observe, too. that the Philadelphia
Saturday Evening Post. which has been
purchased by the Curtis Publishing
Company. is, under the strong and dig
nified editorship of Mr.. William George
Jordan, taking rank as literary week
". with fine illustrations, stories at once
clean ana clever, and comment that is
not designed to do more than give read
ers the view of events that is he'd by
decsnt, undemagogic. self-contained
Americans. 1t is to be remembered