The St. Louis Republic., 1904-09-25
EDITORS AND OTHER PEOPLE.

Not few people have queer notioDe Of editors
and newspapers. Marie CorelH il among the num-
Der who possess them She holds that the journalist
is hardly to blame il in a praisewortby desire To
give selling impetus to his paper he gets up lit
tie bit Of speculative meIodrama. such as German
Malignity," Russian Trickery," Mysterious Move
ments Of the Fleet" French Insult to the King"
Americas Secret Treaty. or alarming Eastern
Rumors': and that he Ii perhaps not in any way
departing from his own special line Of business IL
he counts on the general gulibility Of the public.
though in this he is likely himself be eulled
she says the public has often been taken in by
mere sensationalism in war news and the like that
it is beginning to view all rumors with more con-
tempt than credence.
Among other thinga Miss Corelh says: "Glancing
back to the early journalism Of the past century.
when Dickens and Thackeray wrote for the news
papers cthefe were giants in those days) cannot
help being struck BY the sreat deterioration in the
whole tone Of the press At the present time
trasted with that Of the Victorian era. There Is
dignity, refinement and power in the leading ar
ticles Of the Times and other journals then in
vogue such rs must have compelled people not only
to read. but to think. The vulgar personal note,
the nippant sneer At this that and tother person
age. the monkey-lke mockery Of women, the sense
less gibes flung at poets and poetry, the clownish
kick at sentiment. were all apparently unknown
We strongly suspect Miss Corelli Of having read
too many yellow journals Of late. No better de
scription Of yellow Journalism has been put forth
than her remarks from first to last contain, and
applied to the saffron sheets which insult the in
teiligence Of the American people her observations
accurately correct: but Miss CorelH herself will
probably admit that she finds in the representative
journals Of to-day the morale, mind dignity and
power the absence Of which from the chrome press
sv,> L. l~unn Uo. ~rxfcl rhn u
sporsibility Of the Press Is well worth reading both
for entertainment and for serious consideration. 1t
will form Of the numerous attractive features Of
next Sundays Republic Magazine.
Clifton Hardy Levy whose article In the Sunday
Magazine Of September Is was the 6rst publication
in this country Of the remarkable discoveries Of the
French Government in and about the Oracle Of
Delphi in Greece describes and illustrates in next
Sundays issue some Of the extraordinary sculpture
found in the ruins Of the ancient temple Of the
Oracle and the Treasury Of Cnidos Upon these
buildings the ancient Athenians lavished immense
fortunes and their famous artists embellished the
buildings with illustrations taken from Greek my
tholozy and legends.
Henry Clews. the New York banker and author
Of Twenty Eight Years in Wall Street." The Wall
Street Point Of View" and other volumes. relates =
wonderful story in next Sundays Magazine, show
ing the tremendous strides we are making in the
Twentieth Century.
Opie Read suthor OF The Jucklins- "The Star
bucks" "a Kentucky Colonel' and ether successful
novels. contributes to this number good humorous
short story entitled. "Honk, Man Of Brevity.
Honk was never known to finish sentence-even in
the Penitentiary, and Opie Read tells why in anus
ing fashion
Mary Inlay Taylor, author Of ION the Red Stair
case" The House Of the Wizard" The Rebellion
Of the Princess and other wellknown novels.
writes for next Sundays number n story called
"Nora's Stratagem"; telling Of the ruse whereby a
clever girl Of wealth married the young man Of her
choice and led him unconsciously into making the
proposal he feared to make.
Next weeks Magazine b made unusually divert
Ing bg contributions from Nary Roberts RiDehart