448 History in Handy Volumes 



News during the whole of the Crimean War which lasted 

 through two winters. These correspondences are subject to 

 censorship and have to be interpreted. This has been done 

 with great discretion and success in the daily summary of the 

 Times' military expert and in occasional leaders. 



When one compares the correspondence by letter filling 

 about a column of the Illustrated London News every week 

 in 1854 with the columns upon columns cabled from the seat 

 of war to the New York Times every day since August 1914, 

 one obtains a conception, which is almost stupefying, of the 

 advance made in practical journalism in these sixty years. 



It is a satisfaction, perhaps a melancholy one, to know 

 that it has all happened during my own life, for I read the 

 accounts of the Crimean War with regularity, and with such 

 attention, that I believe I could pass an examination now 

 on the details, from week to week, of the bombardment of 

 Sebastopol. But who would be the examiner? 



