The Newspaper Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The Newspaper So common an object as a newspaper is seldom the subject of serious re ection. If any one of us should stop to consider what it is and why it is made, it is odds that he would think chie y of one aspect of it to the general exclusion of the others. The curious man might re ect in surprise on the vast amount of mere reading matter turned out regularly every morning with perhaps only half a dozen literal mistakes, on the variety of type setting and the amount of printing, often more than sufficient to make a large sized book. The manufacturer would direct his imagination to the efficient machinery meces sary to produce perhaps copies a minute or to the practised organization, able to distribute them, as fast as they are printed. The business man would think chie y of a. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."