Clover's gift was a set of blank books for notes, journals, etc.
The small influence of the American journals is attributable to several reasons, amongst which are the following:
I get all the proceedings of the scientific societies, the principal scientific and trade journals, and read them.
All the political journals of the United States are indeed arrayed on the side of the administration or against it; but they attack and defend in a thousand different ways.
Some of the New York journals fought the new sheet; but it lived and grew till, on the seventh week, it had eleven thousand subscribers. A good business-manager was obtained as partner.
The most enlightened Americans attribute the subordinate influence of the press to this excessive dissemination; and it is adopted as an axiom of political science in that country that the only way to neutralize the effect of public journals is to multiply them indefinitely.
The facility with which journals can be established induces a multitude of individuals to take a part in them; but as the extent of competition precludes the possibility of considerable profit, the most distinguished classes of society are rarely led to engage in these undertakings.
During the past month almost every paper, with the exception of the agricultural journals, has installed an agricultural department, containing short articles by Lord Northcliffe, or some one else in the office who had an unoccupied typewriter, telling the American citizen how to start and hold the interest of a small garden.
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