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NEWSPAPERS AS HISTORY THE NEW US PRESIDENT
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IN. PRIVATE LIFE.
The Topper and the Historian the site in this hotel in which he lived its Mr Coolidge strongly religions. In Zicy Maynard Satuen. (Yer York Vice-President there is und London: trefort. University There is no fetion. but there are fifteru sami! library. Press, Bl. Ji)
volames on the tariff, three volumes on In order to ascertain how far the news the Constitution of the United States, 20 paper Prens enu, be used na material for
fan miscellaneous Psays, one or two him historians, Miss Ley Maynard Salmon torical works, and Hible showing it has examines in much detail this Press genes 1been much read. There was a bookmarker. -rally-of-Alterica and of England past and the Sixth Chapter of St. Mattheus, present; "and takes her readers through which give that portion of the Sermifit. the history of newspapers and through on the Mount in which Christ repeats the the various elements, spiritual personal
Lord's Prayer atud nimoni-be-gainst the and material, which a newspaper etabadies she page is the Twenty-third Psalm.
storing or earthly
The most in its pages. It is a highly painstaking The Lard my Shephered." hires of work, even if sonie pf"the" con- Siderations into which Miss Salmon enter are comparatively trivial, anst if in the end the conclusions which she reaches may seem a little vague after a minute which is diminishing but a su ener an analysis. But the upshot of the whole is increasing. The standard of duct matter is that, with certain reservations which they require was never before so which the historian must bear in mind universally recognised and accepted. " - [t when rending Bles of old newspaper, the sanctifies every place of worship, it is newspaper Porse still remains the most"
revealed in every institution of learning, important sours the historian has at his it supports every activity of government. command for the reconstruction of thai saštains?ovory economie situclure. In Fife of the past three centuries,"
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It is faith that is a hit. Speaking at Albany atural that Mr. Choliger xhould show the
tions, he said: last year on religions beliefs and convie-
power which
omestic affairs in international affairs. it is more, and more the reliance of ma kind. **
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Obviously the historian's purpose is not that of the daily reader. The historian. says Miss Salmon, will pot ga to the Pựng for new for most of it comes to him [^ from other sources; but he may week in it expression" of public opinion, and a pic ture of contemporary R. This picthre: he will find in “the editorial,, the illust textion, and the advertisement," How fur will they sejve him! The very vast- ning of Miss Salmon' sürvey, and the difficulty of finding anything: approach, ing a common denominator in the Press BANKING-SHIPPING-TRAVEL Faf nt, lewat two,countries, and two ern- turies. make categorial statement, dan- geroits, and if in the course of Miss Salmon's pages such a statement appears, Lay it occasionally will, to be without com
plete warrant, the answer or the crait- plement to it occurk very likely visewhere, By English readers it in the the the colouring is unduly American; on the other hand, the author is constantly wady with a saving clause, -Here, however, is a sentence which all conscientious newa papers will resent as it stands ---
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Anetboy limitation on the authoritative. ness of the Press is that its own interest in itself seems to begin aml end with autstripping a Wighbour 16 the rapidify with which it gets nows. Enorinour R. pense is incurred in getting news in ads Vanes of competitors, but no" evidence is | CABLE AND POSTAL REMITTANJE. shown that equal expense is incur 1 PURCHASE OF BILLS OF EXCHANGE getting nythoritative news.
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Miss Salmon would And that in minny newspaper offers the time, trouble, and Every approved Banking Shipping and expense taken to verify reports are often Travel Transaction. out of proportion to the result. What. Also, is the employerrat of "ouf own* al special
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of the value of truthfulness, and of such | CAPITAL CONTRIBUTED" BY THE an incident as she relater of Delane's cau tious handling of the warning he merived of German machinations against, France in 1875. On a smaller scale. Minilar things are done daily, but the world doesj not hear of the
What, again is the assumed tacit obligation to theatre managers" under" which the dramatic critic works? Why -sume it? But as Miss Salmon says somewhere else, each paper must be studied by its. Why nain, must the historian prefer the signed artich whenever the identification of the article adds nuthoritativeness,”
The anony
mous authority of corporation is often as good as that of a single writer. In the controversy between gigned and un- Fsigned articlės justier is' scarcely done to ertain reasons, which compel anonymity: the personiit of a paier HIỆN học Bảo strong, and its information so little the property of a single member of its" staff. that signature is out of the question. · In the article on “personality " we read that the historian does not look for rn- liable information in newspaper printed on paper of an inferior quality."
This ms unduly hard on the first fruits of a Coloniat presy, and on struggling rural
papers,
The historian is rightly warned on several point relating to the reflection of public opinion. Old nswspapers - weze often too truculent: modern. ones may be too" kind alike to persons and institu tions from cases which the historian. but not perhaps the daily render, might wish in-onerative. The Press, during the Great War, wns not ifkelf, for several reasons, as the historian must remember. Un matters of fact, Miss Salimon, though the declares that in the very nature of things the Press and must be in- netrate," holds that "it is possible to make a fetish of accuracy." Her ᎠᏩᏛ can but think that the word “press ?? “Should not be made the subject, of -such a proposition; the historian who is a real men and not abstraction will be handling. real newspapers, not the abstract "preks," and as in all other documents, he must ̈ weigh and select," Miss Salmon's abstrac- tion of the Press may be indispensable to lier method but in proportion as ha uses it, it dilutes the practical value of ber conclusions.
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