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forth in three lectures, the first on “The modern American newspaper,” delivered before the Wisconsin Editorial Association at Milwaukee, on Tuesday, July 24, 1888; the second on “The profession of journalism,” delivered to the students of Union College, on Friday, October 13, 1893; and the third on “The making of a newspaper man,” delivered at Cornell University, on Founder's Day, January 11, 1894.
As these have been collected into a handy volume which is still on sale,1 no effort is made in this narrative to epitomize them.
They give succinctly, but somewhat informally, the results of his experience and reflection, and conclude with a few important maxims on which he evidently thought the whole art, so far as it could be formulated, is founded.
1 The Art of Newspaper Making. By Charles A. Dana. pp. 114, D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1900.
Harper and Brothers, New York and London, 1907.
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