but it also saw the rise of Mr. Linley Sambourne's forceful
caricature, of Mr. Raven-Hill's delightful rusticities, of
the nervous and most expressive art of the lamented Phil
May. In fact, barring an inclination to overindulgence in
rather trite doggerel, _Punch's_ jorum has rarely been more
tasty than in the past quarter century. Its only serious
rival in the comic field has been _Fliegende Blaetter_.

There is, of course, the prevailing American view that
_Punch_ is dull. Dull it is, in the sense that the best fun
of the most jocose family may be merely tantalizing to the
outsider. A nudge to the initiated may be sufficient to
recall jokes proved by a thousand laughs; the uninitiated
needs a clue. Now, _Punch's_ family is London--a family
whose acquaintance is tolerably worth while--and probably no
one who has not imaginatively made himself familiar with the
mood of London has any business with _Punch_ at all. It is
the homesickness for London that extends the subscription
list to the bounds of the empire; it is the desire to know
what London thinks of itself, of the provinces, of the
world, that makes readers for _Punch_ in every land. It
represents London in the mood of intellectual dalliance as
thoroughly as _Fliegende Blaetter_ does non-Prussian Germany.
This representative quality gives to these two comic papers
something of the solemnity of institutions.

THE OLD JOURNALISM COLORED BY THE NEW.

Norman Hapgood Declares that Yellow
Journals Have Shaken the Newspapers
Out of Their Old Rut.

"Yellowness," in the newspaper sense, means sensationalism; sensationalism
means exaggeration; exaggeration means wrong proportion and the distortion
of truth. On the other hand, it is pointed out that yellowness means
interest; interest means closer attention from a larger audience; the
larger audience means wider editorial influence.

Aside from the main arguments for and against yellowness, there are
noticeable effects which the new journalism has had indirectly upon the
old. Speaking recently before the League for Political Education, in New
York City, Norman Hapgood, the editor of _Collier's Weekly_, attributed
the increased boldness and popular tone of the conservative newspapers to
the influence of yellow journalism:

Yellow journalism has its faults, but it was the first to
shake the newspapers out of the