. Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide . appeared in 1588; the first inScotland, in 1G52 ; and the first in Ireland,in 1700. In 185^, in Great Britain andIreland, there were only 551 newspapers;to-day there are neariy lour times thatnumber, or about 2(J00. In 1771 therewere, in the United States, twenty-fivenewspapers; in 1883 they numbered over12,000. Lamartines prediction may yet befulfilled. He said: Before this centuryshall have run out, journalism will be thewhole press, the whole of human will not have had time to ripen toacfommodatt) itself into the form of a
. Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide . appeared in 1588; the first inScotland, in 1G52 ; and the first in Ireland,in 1700. In 185^, in Great Britain andIreland, there were only 551 newspapers;to-day there are neariy lour times thatnumber, or about 2(J00. In 1771 therewere, in the United States, twenty-fivenewspapers; in 1883 they numbered over12,000. Lamartines prediction may yet befulfilled. He said: Before this centuryshall have run out, journalism will be thewhole press, the whole of human will not have had time to ripen toacfommodatt) itself into the form of a book will arrive too late. The onlybook pussible soon will be a average intelligence of the masses is,of course, promoted in no small degree bymeans of the daily newspaper, which comeswithin the reach of all, when a journal likethe New York Times can be purchased forthe trifling sum of two cents. But newspaper reading rubs ua of muchvaluable time, and sadly interferes withprofounder study : deep learning is not ao- It appeal. cessible through the columns of a news-paper. Moreover, one who reads themassiduously will most likely injure thememory thereby: for the great variety ofinformation they contain cannot possibly beretained, aud, not being digested withthoughtful consideration, passes from themind almost as soon as read. Again : is itnot possible that the small type used inmost .printing-otScea is so far affecting theeyes that .syncopy ia becoming more com-mon than not, and weak eyes are the rule,not the exception. It is also a questionwhether crime is not increased, as well asknowledge disseminated, by means of t)iedaily press. How often do we remark thatoffences of the same nature repeat them-selves in quick succession in different partsof the country, which might never have oc-curred at all had not the newspapers inthe first place expatiated upon the wrong-doing more than was necessary. that the newspaper of to-xed good. Nevertheless,we would make a grave
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