The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-03

Hlisten for half an hour to a long and
complicated statement of facts without
/ taking a note, and reproduce it without
a, single mistake In addition to mem
ory Mr.. Cook has scholarship, culture
and Imagination. The Daily News is
an exceedingly proper paper Mr.. Her
bert Paul, formerly a member Of par
lament and gifted with a mordant
pen, is d. force which makes the lead
ing articles in the Daily News q. living
power. Mr.. Paurs pen portraitures of
some liberal politicians are some of the
cleVerest productions of English jour
nalism. The Daily News is largely read
by nOn-cOnformists, but it's influence
| is not now equal to that of its erratic,
but more brilliant competitor, the Daily
Chronicle. On Fashoda the Daily News
has supported the government.
The Morning Post is the property of
Lord Glenesl, once Sir Algernon Borth-
wick. The note of the Morning Post is
aristocratic, and in many great houses
the ladies of the family read nothing
but Lord Glenesk's paper. 1t is a great
property, since the cooks, Wallets and
ladies' maids in London obtain their
situations through its advertisement
columns. Mr.. Spencer Wilkinson, who
ranks as one of the best civilian experts
on strategy and ornaments who have
caught the public ear, is a prominent
contributor to the Post, and hence some
of the most powerful appeals to the
public and to the ministry for stronger
ornaments and greater firmneSs in for
eign policy are found in the columns of
the Morning Post. Correspondence is
q feature of the paper, but, as a whole,
it breaches to the converted and carries
little weight in the country
OF the evening papers, the Pail Mall
Gazette, owned by Mr.. Astor and edited
u iorl1t ic
liberal pennyworth, Nothing is stinted.
Sir Douglas Straight has recently per
formed a considerable service both to
journalism and the community by ex-
posing the system Of newspaper brides
offered by city men of a certain class.
The particular case involved was that
of a company of which Lord Dufferin
is chairman. Much to the surprise of
the public, the former Viceroy of India
and Canada and the ex- ambassador to
Paris has not yet resigned his position
in the company in question. The Pail
Mall has the lnack Of getting news
earlier than it's rivals Mr.. Gladstone's
retirement, the Anglo-German agree
ment, and the result of Thursdays
cabinet council are cases in point.
The Globe is published on pink paper,
and, being edited by an ex-lieutenant
in the navy and the son of the proprie-
tor. Sir G. Armstrong; is one of the
most outspoken Of the journals against
the enemies of it's country. The Globes
Rabelaisian references to France, and
especially to the gallant Major March
and, during the present crisis, have been
more remarkable for vigor than for
taste. Still the Globe is, as a rule, eX-
tremely well edited, and abounds in a
certain dry humor which is rarer in
these days than when Addison wrote
for the Spectator.
The st. James Gazette is owned by
foreigner and follows strict cOnser-
vative lines. The Westminster Gazette
is liberal journal published on green
paper, owned by Sir George Newnes
the newspaper king, and edited by Mr.
Spender who is probably the ablest of
the editors of the evening journals. For
sheer influence on public opinion I con-
s'der Mr.. Spender's verdant sheet to
exceed that of his more popular rivals.
1t has a biting common sense that takes
with the average man.
OF the weekly papers, the Spectator is
easily first. Through the influence and
abilities of the late r. II. Hutton, who
probably exercised more power and in
fluenced more opinion than any man
outside the cabinet, the Spectator ac-
CURED a reputation for calm sagacity
and philosophic analysis of burning
questions which it has not wholly lost
under the control of Mr.. St Loe
trachey.-Arhold White, in Harper's
Weekly.