We arc sorry to receive the final number of the
Bellman., the excellent Minneapolis weekly which for thirteen years past has interested and instructed us. Mr. William C. Edgar, the editor and chief proprietor, explains that he can no longer find time to give his personal attention to the paper, and that he prefers to discontinue its publication rather than let it pass into other hands. He states that the Bellman was started as an experiment, to discover whether an illustrated weekly appealing only to well educated readers could be made to pay in the Middle West. He is now able to say that the experiment succeeded, from a financial as well as from a literary standpoint. We congratulate Mr. -Edgar on his good work, and we trust that some other journalist of high standing in the Middle West will essay a new enterprise on similar lines.
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