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 Old and New Journalism — London, yj ter^aining paragraphic record of the day. Illustrations are rigorously eschewed, except in the form of occasional sketch maps. But that we may no longer be without illustrations of daily events on our breakfast tables, the Daily Graphic has been established, which gives a dii^mal pictorial record of passing events, and is a new and spirited departure in journalism without parallel in the world. If the morning newspapers of London are rather in the rear than in the van of newspaper progress, the same remark cannot be applied to the evening Press of the metropolis. Here innovation and diversity reign supreme. Not one of the evening newspapers has escaped the in- fection ; not one but has raised itself to a greater or lesser extent out of the old grooves. All would not, however, lay claim to be considered organs of the " new" journalism whose virtues and faults were aptly described by the late Matthew Arnold : — " We have had opportunities of ob- serving a new journalism, which a clever and energetic man has lately invented. It has much to recommend it ; it is full of ability and novelty, variety, sensation, sympathy, generous instincts ; it has one great fault, that it is feather brained. It throws out ventures at a venture because it wishes them true, does not correct either them or itself, if they are false ; and to get at the state of things as they truly are, seems to feel no concern whatever." The criticism is a true and just «ne ; it has not been seriously controverted, and should have a sobering effect on all enthusiastic disciples of the new school. While we have gained much with which we would not willingly part, through the efforts of those who have led in the departure from the old order of things, we have become acquainted with some undesirable additions to English journalism, and we have also lost something. We enjoy the "interview." It is deeply interesting to have from