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40 The Newspaper World, who have transgressed an editor's political or moral code, savor of persecution. But to conclude. With its lively articles and its eflfective pictorial illustration, the London evening newspaper of to-day is one of the most remark- able developments of journalistic enterprise and ability of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. It would be difficult, if not impossible, to estimate aright its influence on public affairs and on the life of the nation, but a com- parison with that exercised by the morning paper is very much in favor of the smaller though less extensively circu- lated evening journal.
