The New York Evening Post has recently issued a remark-
able anniversary number to celebrate its centenary. This colossal issue, which contains not only a most interesting history of the paper and its successive editors, but an admirably illustrated comparative survey of New York in 1801 and 1901, is worthy of what is one of the best daily papers in the world. From the great vice of American journalism—excess in its various forms—the Evening Post has always been conspicuously free. Its honesty has never been impeached; it has never shrunk from adopting an unpopular cause or assailing corruption in high places. The literary quality of its editorial columns, again, has always been of a high order, and the Saturday supplement is among the best miscellanies of fact and fiction published by any daily paper in the English language. With many of its political views, notably those on expansion, Home-rule, and the war in South Africa, we find ourselves in acute antagonism, but the manner in which those views are expressed leaves little if any ground for complaint
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