the earth. Others again win
public regard by the construction of means of communication for the
furtherance of commerce. The canals, railroads, and telegraph are
glorious specimens of their useful exertion for the public good. But the
marts of commerce change. Tyre and Sidon, and Venice are no longer
commercial centres. The shores of the Pacific are even now starting in a
race against the great commercial emporium of our continent. But Mr.
Childs has planted himself in the human heart, and he will have his
habitation there while man shall dwell upon earth. He has laid the
foundation of his monument upon universal benevolence. Its
superstructure is composed of good and noble deeds. Its spire is the
love of God which ascends to Heaven." Such a monument is, indeed,

"A Pyramid so wide and high
That Cheops stand in envy by."

Is not that glorious success? But if the name of George W. Childs was
not a synonym for charity and philanthropy, the fact that he has
demonstrated beyond doubt the possibility of making a newspaper not only
pure and clean, but also proving that people will buy wholesome news, as
well as trash, and thus refuting the opinion that the people are wholly
responsible for the vile matter that is circulated, ought alone to
commend him to the world as a great benefactor. Worldly reasoners and
great financiers, wiseacres and successful editors prophesied its
failure, but what mattered this to George W. Childs? When a boy he
determined to one day own the _Public Ledger_; he accomplished that.
When a man he determined to elevate the tone of a newspaper, and thus
prove the fallacy of the opinion that "A newspaper must print all the
news, no matter what, or else fail";--he has here also fulfilled his
desires. Surely, "Where there's a will there's a way."

JAMES GORDON BENNETT.

When Horace Greeley was starting the _Tribune_ the _Herald_ was five or
six years old, and its success assured. Mr. Greeley started his as an
uncompromising party paper; Mr. Bennett presented the _Herald_ to the
people as an independent paper, the first ever published that was simply
an indicator of public opinion bound and gagged by no party.

To Scotland shall we as a nation ever be indebted for one of the
greatest journalists of the nineteenth century. When about fifteen years
old he entered a Catholic school at Aberdeen expecting to enter the
clergy, but after an academic life of two or three years he abandoned
the