Show MODERN WORK WILL NOT newspapers and books printed today have short lives the men who wrote history on tablets of stone in ages gone had a difficult task to perform and had to cultivate the habit of brevity says a writer in a german paper but what they wrote was preserved it will be different with the newspapers and books of the present time the paper upon which they are printed will als integrate in a few years and the records historical scientific and liter ary will become dust I 1 saw two papers last week which told the whole story one contained an ac count of the death of napoleon dona parte it was printed in 1821 was in a state of perfect preservation and looked as though it might last with ordinary care a hundred years the other paper was kept because its leading article described the der of sedan which had taken place a day before although it had been printed nearly 50 years later the sedan paper had to be handled carefully to prevent its tearing in the creases one of these papers was printed on old fashioned paper and the other on the modern kind with the two specimens before me I 1 can not refrain from urging once more that a few numbers of all books and newspapers enough for all farst class libraries be printed on good paper tor the benefit of those who will live after us |