The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-04-10

al engagement as ..aT correspondent
to the Daily News. He VAS l.. 40
means 4 very brilliant writer. but la
mad what WAS more iu1portant. great
facility in writing or fairly readable
matters rapidly. and-a suiII NOR
I4ple-@ OfLnE reeofum.ula1tOu--sHt
o. being willing to stand any amount
81 fatigue or sgeud any amount ST
HlJhey In order 10 get mis- te!estams
OIL before anybody else. Thanks 10
Archibald Forbes the Daily News
gave the best, or. az any rate Tia most
rapid, war news during the whole
OF II war which ended with the en-
llE Of the German army into Paris
and the outbreak Of the Commune"
! did not know Of MS death. H was
not q man % gifts as a lecturer. being
awkward in manner. without el9cu-
uDnarE qualities, but what he told
was full OF interest and life. Mr.. Dicey
holds that Sir William Russell - now
the greatest Of newspaper correspond
eHtS, ana ne still lives ENJOYING q
green Old age" M. Forbes held that
ala American war correspondent he
met IN Europe and served with. was
the greatest OF all he knew. | forget
his name. but think he was really Of
irish birth On descent, MI. DiCey thinks
that the employment Of the Telegraph
has proved fatal. and will prove still
more fatal. 70 the literary merits Of
the foreign correspondence of our
newspapers" The journalists OF his
earlier life. were educated men of tai
ents ard studied. lie says also that
the "Working man Of his own boy
hood, used to deVot his evenings to
the study or science and metaphysics.
he is particularly interesting in the
following:
Not bong ago / was propounding
my own views as TO the superiority Of
the old leader system to one of the
n Nv ~ ny- AnII - l. =
He interrupted me by saying: i have
no doubt you are right in theory. but
you are wrong in practice. The news
paper-reading public of today want
to be amused. not instructed. They
do not wish to use their minds more
than they can help. They like to
have their mental food given them in
minces and sEiDDets, not in chops or
joints. They prefer smart headed
paragraphs to able leading articles"
There is more widely defined ed
ucation" now and less true culture
and taste. Mr.. Dicey closes his high
~ interesting article With certain on
illusions IF his own and it may fit both
Great Britain anGsthe United States:
First, hat we shall never see again
q new daily paper started at any
price above one penny. Secondly,
that the proportion of halfnenny TO
penny dailies will continue to increase
Thirdly, that all our daily papers,
whatever their price may be, Will
tend to conform more to the system
inaugurated by the cheap Press, that
of catering for the masses instead of
the classes: for the public Which pre-
fers "leaderettes"-an odious word
to leaders, and which likes its news
given in short paragraphs made easy
of comprehension by being arranged
SO that he n runs may read,
through Well-deViSed headings"
Ihe publication annually OF someI
20, 00e noyels--theIe We're over 1909
published in the United States in 1904
and most OF them of an inartistic
work and webbing Kind but sensa-
tiOnal, with the great rush for vel
low journals" and silly EDITORIALS, that
are GeVoured on Sundays especially,
are all on a line with the "leaderette"
business, and show that England is
Us bad off as other countries in the
decay of refined culture. and a taste
formed by and based not upon the
great works of the world, upon ephe-
neral and second or third rate pro
auctions in many departments. But
England, unlike our own country. has
a half dozen great weekly literary pa
perS and as many great Reviews. The
great authors in English are still
read by the well cultivated men and
Women
Wilmington, n. c.. April {, 1906.