are able to detect interesting characteristics of local journalism, as will appear from a rapid survey of the several

centres:

1. New York, which is the metropolitan news centre of the country and has journals of all descriptions, "setting the pace" in "yellow" and conservative journalism alike, does not occupy either first or last place in any department. In foreign news it comes second, and would perhaps come first under normal conditions. In these statistics Cleveland stands first, as most of the papers analyzed for this news centre were issues for September, when the Dreyfus case and other foreign matters were taking up much space. New York stands second in crime and vice, and no doubt deserves that position. Individual New York papers, of course, show great variations.

in a number of departments:

Following are the extremes

2. Boston, which is the one great news centre of New England, and which is supposed to be, more than any other large American city, the home of culture and learning, is nevertheless afflicted with sensational journalism. In percentage of illustrations this centre stands second. It is a curious fact that the craze for illustrations seems to have taken possession of the extreme West, the extreme East, and two or three intermediate stations, in the following

order: San Francisco, Boston, St. Louis, Denver, New York. It is significant that Boston stands at the foot of the list in the department of business news. That Boston, too, shows wide variations in its individual papers will be seen by a comparison of the Evening Journal and the Evening Transcript:

3. Philadelphia, the most American of the great news centres, stands first in society news and last in medical advertisements, seemingly not a dishonorable distinction,

4. Chicago, the great industrial and commercial centre of the North Central states, stands second in literature and near the foot in crime and vice. While exhibiting no striking peculiarities as a news centre, Chicago furnishes, perhaps, the best average among its leading newspapers of any great city in the United States.

5. Baltimore and Washington show no very important peculiarities, except that they rank next to Boston at the bottom of the list in business news.

6. Pittsburg, with its immense suburban population, stands first in retail advertisements and next to the last in want advertisements.

7 and 8. St. Louis and Cincinnati, of which the one had in 1860 almost exactly 50 per cent and the other 45 per cent foreign-born population, predominantly German, seem now to be in some respects the most notable centres of "yellow

journalism" in the country. These two centres keep remarkably close together in the table of percentages. Both stand high in illustrations, medical advertisements, and news of crime and vice; while they stand very low in letters and exchanges, editorials, literature, and retail advertisements. It is significant that Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of the New York World, got his training in yellow journalism as manager of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. There is, too, in both St. Louis and Cincinnati a member of the "Scripps-McRae League."

9. Minneapolis and St. Paul stand last in political

news.

10. Kansas City presents a considerable contrast with St. Louis in journalism, the former centre being nearly as conservative as the latter is sensational. Kansas City stands first in letters and exchanges and second in busi

ness news.

II. Louisville stands first in business news and also first in the general subdivision, special news.

12. San Francisco stands away above all the other news centres in the proportion of illustrations. It also stands first in want and last in retail advertisements, in these respects being almost the exact opposite of Pittsburg.

13. Buffalo takes first place in advertisements as a whole, and also in sporting news, while it stands very low in vice and crime and miscellaneous news.

14. Cleveland stands first in foreign news, second in medical advertisements, third in vice and crime, and near the last in war news. The relative prominence of foreign news and crime and vice, as well as the small importance of war news, are due to the fact that September issues for the most part were analyzed.

15. Indianapolis stands low in crime and vice and in two divisions of advertisements.

16. Omaha is a centre of extreme characteristics, standing first in political and miscellaneous news and self