HOW TO WRITE FOR THE PAPERS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3985, 6 October 1881, Page 2

HOW TO WRITE FOR THE PAPERS.

, The Boston Post hits the nail on the head when it says :—" Communication! should be brief, and there are several reasons for this. la the first place, new*. paper space is valuable. The modern newspaper is never troubled with 'the old time complaint of needing " something to fill up." The editor's scalpel is constantly reeking from the slaughter of live news matter and interesting miscellany. Short communications are much more likely to find readers than long ones are, and unless, they are to be road it is much better not to' publish them. More contributions can be represented when the articles are short than when they are long, and one mannas " as strong a claim upon the columns at another provided he furnishes interesting matter. A short article is usually more pointed and pithy than a long one. A. subject should have many ramifications tp~ demand more than half a column in a newspaper, while all that can be saved' even from that limit up to a certain point is apt to be an improvement. Thatpriine

of journalists, the late Samuel Bowles once apologised for a long editorial, and gave as his excuse lack of time to write a short one. He expressed an important truth in his usual epigrammatic way.