IV
SUNDAY PAPERS

American journalism is a thing which is quite
different from that of other countries; but the
Sunday papers of New York are really beyond our
conception of the newspaper. Their only preten¬
sion to the category of ordinary Sunday papers is
that they are issued on Sundays. A New York
Sunday paper consists of no less than a hundred
pages; and, as for its contents, anything which can
possibly be put in print is found among them.

The mere sight of the New York Sunday paper
frightened me. I could scarcely take heart to
open it. A hundred pages in a book of the ordi¬
nary size are not of much consequence; but when
they come to the size of a newspaper, they
constitute a formidable quantity. It was, therefore,
absolutely impossible for me to hold it in my hand