Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1887 — A WONDERFUL ROOK. [ARTICLE]

A WONDERFUL ROOK.

An acreney for one of J. W. Bull’s oaoks is about as valuable as a wells.'oeked farm without any morgtnges Be seams to know by intuition wtut sorr of books wll suit the penplc i and he writes for the masses. He as never y«t written » book that wu« not a great success, but we predict that hie latest work, “Sea and Land,” just, issued by Dan. Lihahan & Co., St. Louis, Mo, will outstrip nil ’sis previous efforts It deals with suhj< c s that a’e always irieresiing, and he ha« treated them in a wav that adds fascination to interfst. The Christian Reflector says: '‘The book is a revelation to u«. We c.ad uo Idea that the subject could be treated in such an int'-nsel interesting manner. It is a great wo;k, and we an* almost persuaded to tarn book agents ourselves and help to circulate it for *.he good it will do ” (i-‘<.e advertiseaeat in another part of this paper ) The Indianapolis News enjoys the distinction of having been the first successful attempt to found a 2 cent paper west of Pittsburgh and lias witnessed the demise of thirteen would be com petitors in its own city, where several hundred thousand dollars have been sunk by cheap papers faying to get a foot hold by the side of the News. The successful 2 cen'’ papers*of Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Louisville have been close students and in most instances very close imitators of The News’ method, though none of them reaching its elevated tone as a ranrJy newspaper.