Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . - tH HI U» m i. RECORD BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA. 228 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY correspondence from every quarter of the globe, and covering every fieldof activity; a highly improved and more independent editorship ; a greatlyenlarged, more active, and more conscientious reportorial
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . - tH HI U» m i. RECORD BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA. 228 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY correspondence from every quarter of the globe, and covering every fieldof activity; a highly improved and more independent editorship ; a greatlyenlarged, more active, and more conscientious reportorial staff; the comingof tire interviewer, at first an impertinent pest, but now recognized as avaluable journalistic adjunct in reflecting opinions and sentiments not other-wise obtainable; the employment of the thousand and one new appliancesfor printing, such as stereotyping, electrotyping, improved types, typesettingmachines, rapid presses, folding machines, etc. By 1883 a reaction came on in the prices of leading journals, and theywere forced to reduce them by reason of the strong competition offered bythe numerous and powerful two-cent journals which had come into beingand had proven to be valuable properties. Indeed, this reaction did notleave the two-cent journals untouched, for it brought many of that cla
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