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But this astonishing development is far from satisfactory in its general results, and no serious person can fail to notice a lack of dignity in the productions of our ephemeral press, or to realize the degradation of standard and of aim that is the necessary consequence of the prevalent attitude assumed by these publications in their relations with their constituencies. Their defects are mostly reducible to a single statement: they follow where it should be their office to lead. Instead of guiding public opinion, they submit to its dictates; they wait to see in which way the cat will jump, and then jump after it, instead of intelligently shaping their own course, and patiently waiting for the outcome to justify it. All this, of course, is still further reducible to a mode of action of the commercial spirit, and the radix malorum of the Apostle is assuredly the real root of this evil. Considerable attention has recently been called to an article on American newspapers, published in an English review. While the writer of that article was in some respects deficient in knowledge of his subject, he based his conclusions upon a wide range of observations, and the severity of his judgments was hardly more than just. The American newspaper has its points of excellence, but, as a whole, is not an institution which we can regard with pride, or hold up as a model in many respects worthy of imitation. It is not, however, our present purpose to consider the newspaper press, which illustrates the extreme form of the evil in question, but to say a few words in characterization of our magazines and reviews. Here, fortunately, a considerable proportion of praise may be mingled with the censure, and the outlook has little of the hopelessness with which the prospect of the American newspaper must at present be viewed. When we take a general survey of the American monthlies, the most noticeable fact is the absence of any review for a moment comparable with either of the three great English monthlies. We have never had anything fully equal to them, although a standard not greatly inferior was maintained by the |