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 98 The Newspaper World, of American journalism strikes us as of inferior quality. Let the newspaper reader make his own comparisons by noting the leading articles in first-class London and New York papers respectively. If he is interested in any great American cause cdllbre he is hardly likely to find his craving for information satisfied by the reports he finds in the newspapers of the country. But in saying this the fact must not be overlooked that we owe the interview and illustrations to American journalism. In the collection of many kinds of news also English editors have unquestionably followed American example. The hope may be expressed that, as time goes on, the journalists of the great English-speaking race, in whatever part of the world their lot is cast, will more and more be found following the best examples of enterprise from whatever quarter they come, while initiating, at the same time, improvements of their own. It is only by doing this that they can hope to show what the public expects of them — the capacity to guide aright the mighty tendencies of modem civilization.