ENGLISH V. AMERICAN JOURNALISM.

Evening Star, Issue 12766, 20 March 1906, Page 2

ENGLISH V. AMERICAN JOURNALISM.

Mr Henry Watterson, one of the most prominent journalists in America, discusses English and American journalism in ‘Mnnse/s' Magazine.’ English typesetting arid English presswork and English, paper-mak-ig—better, he writes,, than with us—give the London newspapers considerable advantage oyer rite American newspapers in, appearance, while their make-up excels oura in system and order. None of the great dailies of London.use display, type as it is used ini America.' Another 'point df difference much to the" credit of London he against New. York is the reduction’ of tile day’s news into aocie jjTOgwr&oe, aadt tfao

abridgement of each detail -within its proper apace. There is less ■“featuring” no needless superfluity. London compresses into a .paragraph, what’New-York' wpfficEamplify into a column. - Netr York covers, the field more dully; but it does this ait a cost of a vast amount of the immaterial. Too much elaboration is the sin of New York; sometimes too little, though not 'often, is that of London.. When one has read any one of the five leading London dailies, he is toler.ablyfsure of being repossession of the history 1 of yesterday. The cleanliness of the

London newspapers is delightful. Much of -their interest and value is found, in their court reports, wherein the story is set down with great particularity, but without surplusage. There are no exaggerations fi* the text, and no head-lining to mstort thAtext, The Divorce Court rarnishes a constant stream of matter which, under American treatment, would he meet salacious and unsightly. It is lees so as rendered in' England. The sarney may be said of the police reports. Indeed, in all points df decency the London newspapers fax surpass us.

In the witness-box at the Brentford County Court, England, a young man exregret that his wife, w[io wag' a material witness,; was,unable to be' present; as .she was,, about to. become' a mother. “ And- when do you - anticipate this—er; happy event?” inquired counsel. At-this instant the usher handed' the young man a telegram, •whereupon * his < face bedame' wreathed in smiles. : ’‘Has ; the .event come, off ?” said counsel. “ Yes, sir,”, replied fcheproud parent, “ and I am happy to say it is a double event—twins.”