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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1911, 17 February 1875, Page 3

Journalism as a Business* —In commenting upon the failure of a newspaper editor, the St. Louis Glohe tells a plain truth in the following words:—The business of journalism will continue to be an inviting field for experiments for those who have a large amount of money and a large amount of egotism. A man who, having edited a paper until he was forty, ihould suddenly announce himself a lawyer would be regarded as a fool by the legal profession; and yet we often hear of lawyers of forty, making sudden pretentious to journalism. There is an idea that the business requires no apprenticeship ; that the editors come forth from law-offices and colleges fully armed for the profession, like Pallas from the brow of Jove. It is a mistake; there is not to-day asingle journalist of national reputation who has not devoted more time and more hard work to his profession than, -with equal fitness and application, would have made him a great lawyer or a good doctor. And yet ninety but of every hundred men you meet on the street will hesitate about carrying avhod or , -making a pair of shoes, whereas they will probably not be one in the hundred who can't, according to his own judgment, edit any newspaper in the country better than it is edited, no matter in what manner or by whom. -