Show 1 7 1 f 7 stitsew Vll > 1 French and American Journals I is the fashion to condemn French jour nals on the ground that they a deficient in what we call news Of course it i evident that in this respect they a a long way behind be-hind u but I attribute it not to any lack of enterprise on the part of editors and proprie uors far from Itbut to the fact that they recognize that the general demand i for something quite different People in Franco have not got the terrible thirst for news not at which consumes us at home they are all in a hurry to know about accidents and crimes before it i necessary and even then Y G I crme bfor 1 they dont want a great mass of sickening l details I i R In many ways their tastes are more elevated 5 ele-vated than ours For example Tho Figaro J vat wi print two columns on 0 new play by 1 Alexander Dumas and will employ one of the most distinguished literary men in tho country to write the criticism There is another tr wte crtcim other great difference in France a the L I great writers contribute t the newspapers DE WE and these men aro paid as much n 10000 to 12000 a year The result is that a first TONS class French newspaper becomes really a vehicle for tho transmission of the highest g i order of literary scientific and artistic i Jtrar thought and certainly that i very much 18 Crs more than we can say of our American p 1 Lake pert even the best of them Albert Pulitzer la Jn in New York Journal fOhi |