. The progress of the Empire State a work devoted to the historical, financial, industrial, and literary development of New York. forest tree into a Sunday supplement oran evening extra, have played an incalculable part in increas-ing the newspaper output. An observer who had a uniquelife in which to mark the changes in our current litera-ture and whose interests led him to study them, the lateRichard Watson Gilder, once had some pregnant andvaluable things to say on this subject in an interview. I suppose, he is quoted as saying, in no country arenewspapers so much an integral part of the peo
. The progress of the Empire State a work devoted to the historical, financial, industrial, and literary development of New York. forest tree into a Sunday supplement oran evening extra, have played an incalculable part in increas-ing the newspaper output. An observer who had a uniquelife in which to mark the changes in our current litera-ture and whose interests led him to study them, the lateRichard Watson Gilder, once had some pregnant andvaluable things to say on this subject in an interview. I suppose, he is quoted as saying, in no country arenewspapers so much an integral part of the peoples life andthought as here in America. We are, as Mr. Bryce says,the great reading people of the world. You see the contrastif you go to Southern Europe, for instance. There illiteracyis common and the people depend to a great extent on talkand local gossip for their daily enlightenment. I think thatwe have a greater eagerness than they to know what isgoing on in the world. . The enormous appetite thepublic has for periodical literature seems astonishing, butit is perfectly natural. One of the strongest traits in the. GEORGE PRESTON SHELDON Insurance officer; born in New York City, January 17, 1847;graduated from Yale in 1867, with degree of Becamepresident Phenix Insurance Co., 1888. Member Chamber ofCommerce, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale Alumni, Athletic,University, and New York Clubs. Died December 25, 1909. DEVELOPMENT OF THE PERIODICAL PRESS 409 human mind is curiosity. The newspaper habit is the re-sult of our attitude of inquiry toward all mankind. Curi-osity accounts in a great measure for our love of literature,for our love of news, for our love of life. . The aspectin which the daily press has changed most within my recol-lection is in its development of sensationalism. This sen-sational wave which started in the West has now sweptacross the country from ocean to ocean. But the newjournalism is not without its good points. Along withall the sensationalism,
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