THE INFLUENCE OF THE TIMES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVI, Issue 75, 1 April 1892, Page 2

THE INFLUENCE OF THE TIMES.

It has been said that The Time* has loafr Us oW commanding poaitioa in BngHgfi ' journalwra: I cannot say than agr*?. li is true that The Time/ no longi Mail ' alone. To-day, as has been aa Sd, ii j"onS vnum mter para, Naithac csn ii be said io pousesj the dominant and almoii atro«ant foroo, the capacity for dealing blows that fell aa from a. Naamyth hammer, a neraoaalittes and polioied, which it -po'ssm^L when Delane breathed into it his masterful in- ; fluenoe, or when Edward Sterling played for it the part of a kind of embodied lime Spirit. B«fi The Tims is still unique among nun. papers. Alone araong- bnc preas it haa preserved the old " oook-sora" note tha6 Oobbefct made hia own. Aloae, nmoaz newspapers repreaeafe .Cue moca cultured side of journalism, the permanenfe interests of science, art, literature, and research, while others are oompalled to eatfier )• mainly the froth aM fiani toat fifea ?S :f the mam currant of nationaUnd Europeaa HEo.' Its foreign correspondence 5 is still unrivalled, aud its influence in foreign coarta and diplomatic ciroles ia as. strong aa ever. Ihet Times follows the' travelled Ertglia'h* man everywhere, aud, as a consequence, Us hotel circulation must be larger cban thatot any other paper, Ita ideals are not peirhapa' ; , the highest, but they are steadily pursued. Other newapaperi mirror more perfetly the tendeaoies of the age, but Xhe Tim* still stands the most oonapiouona representative of tha meoiiauical and material greataeas o£ England, her capacity for organisation; hetv thoroughness of method, her steady oonceoV tration of purpose.— Leisure Hour.