Century oF Joumeatisns 1831-1031, The Sydney" Morning I
Sohn Pai existence. So monu-and so industrious have the compilers been in diving into the old files of their newspaper that it would be difficult to imagine any future historian attempting to dis-Jcass the rise and development of Australia without making a genlerous use of the wealth of material in this volume of 800 pages. Apart from the intrinsic value of the reading matter, it may be noted that the book itself is a model of fon. It is beautifully il photographs whi vividly show the transformation of the rugged natural charm of the Sydney of the early ninctoonthfeentury to the magnificent town of to-day. It shows, too, how the requirements of the reader of a news-Daper have so lavishly increased. The little sheet with which the Sydney Morning Herald" began its career on April 18, 1831, con trests fantastically "with ' the "Sydney Morning Herald" of today.
first issue consisted of 10} inches page. The present "Sydney Morn-ting Herald" consists of at least 20 pages, 8. columns to the page, Which is what might be called full daily paper size.
"The Sydney Morning Herald" started asa. weekly paper in a building which looks, uncommonly 2 tenement dwelling of rather archaic type, and it was printed on 2 Columbian press such as is Used nowadays in some composing rooms for pulling the page galley-proofs lof the paper. Simplicity marked the methods, of those old presses, run riot round their frames. So the Columbian press is surmounted by an eagle and has surrounding scrolls and cabalistic signs worked Jon its iron fra But perhaps the most remarkable ign of the development of the newspaper from the modest weekly lof 1881 to the big daily of 1931 is the photograph of the advertising, clerical, counting. house, and cit:
staffs. This one section of the newspaper' ition: comprises over a hundred men and women." The" day" can easily "be imagined when this book will be fereatly prized. by Australians, Tt also has mo little interest for mows: Paper men in other parts of the Fworld. "For it shows that out of the acorn of an almost singlehanded. British Journalistic. effort a mighty oak has sprang.
Tneidentally, the book' contains. a most. valuable exposition of the principles of modern: Journalism. of the "best type, and. some' of the chapters dealing" with newspaper work can. be warmly commended. members of the prov Sie 19 obtain 'i crystal some main principles. which should guide them' in' their dai work. The warmest' congratula ions' axe duo not only to the news. paper in. having arrived "at this hurdeedth. mullestone. in its, careot but on its being able' to. produce such an overwhelming. proof of the enterprise and ability governing its
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