. Review of reviews and world's work. is an enterprisingjournal modeled largely after the provincialFrench dailies. In Valencia, the second city of Venezuela,there are five dailies published, led by the there are the Discijndo (Disciple), the Catho-lic organ ; the Centinela (Sentinel), semi-official ;and tlie Cronista (Recorder), a bulletin of Gaceta de Tribunales (Court Gazette) is pub-lished every evening. Maracaibo has five dailies,—the Fonografo(Phonograph), the oldest daily newspaper in thecountry ; the Ecos de Zulia (Echoes of the State),the Ciudadano (Citizen), the
. Review of reviews and world's work. is an enterprisingjournal modeled largely after the provincialFrench dailies. In Valencia, the second city of Venezuela,there are five dailies published, led by the there are the Discijndo (Disciple), the Catho-lic organ ; the Centinela (Sentinel), semi-official ;and tlie Cronista (Recorder), a bulletin of Gaceta de Tribunales (Court Gazette) is pub-lished every evening. Maracaibo has five dailies,—the Fonografo(Phonograph), the oldest daily newspaper in thecountry ; the Ecos de Zulia (Echoes of the State),the Ciudadano (Citizen), the Avisador (Adviser),and the Agenda Maracaibo (Alaracaibo Agent).There are four dailies published in Ciudad Boli-var. Merida has more dailies than any otliercity,—ten in all,—but they are not extensivelycirculated. In Coro there are three dailies, andthere are a number of others throughout thesmaller towns, La Guayra having two. Forty-two dailies are published in the entire are also two official biweeklies issued in. SKNOU ,J. M. HEltlJEUA IKIGOYEN. (Editor of the Cojo, of Caracas.) Caracas,—controlled and subsidized by the gov-ernment. Venezuela ranks among the leading SouthAmerican countries for artistically elaborateweeklies. The most important of these are theSemana (Week) and the Lira (Lyre), of Cara-cas. These contain choice fiction, description,and poetry. Immaculada, the Catholic illustratedweekly, supplies the devout with select Voz de la Nacion (Voice of the Nation) pub-lishes conservative essays on economics. Ital-ians read the Patria. Other weeklies, chieflycommercial, are the Dominical, the Anuncio, andthe Realidad. There are also several comic journals, the bestknown of which is Don Timoteo (Sir Timothy),of Valencia. The Cojo Ilustrado (IllustratedCripple) is the most noted of the literary peri-odicals. It is a fortnightly, and contains onlypoems, short stories, and criticisms. Its literarytone is high, as is also its price, which i
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