The Nation 
Its Characteristics and What Commends It to the Thinking 
Public. 
A journal which has for more than forty years been the recognized 
medium par excellence of the learned world of America, 
The New York Nation, founded in 1865 and conducted with rare editorial 
continuity to the present time, enlisted from the beginning the + Ming service 
of the best morality and enlightenment of the country. As a forum ut general 
discussion it has never had a peer, and its total body of casual correspondence 
Surpasses any of a like character ever brought together in this country. Its 
Special correspondence has been not less remarkable, intrinsically averaging 
4 hundred letters yearly, and being gathered from all quarters of the globe. 
The Nation's literary criticism has, for carefulness, evenness, justice, and style 
earned it the first place on this side of the water, and by the consensus of for- 
eign opinion, putit ona par with the best authorities in any country. Not 
only American, but English, French, and German men of letters have combin- 
ed to this end, giving the Vadion a truly international quality and reputation 
In politics it has made the same mark, and even more profound; but here the 
fecognition has been less ungrudging because the spirit of party condemns in- 
*pendent and disinterested criticism, such as is welcomed in all branches of 
the 
Many years ago a clergyman said of it that he would make a 
Nation as the alternative to: four years of college, on the ground 
ening effect upon the mind was more certain. This testimony 
May be exaggerated, but it conveys the belief of many that the Vasion is a lib- 
eral education even to the graduates of our foremost universities. 
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