We do not often mention newspapers, but we must notice
the appearance of a new illustrated weekly of the first class, called the Graphic. It is full of drawings which seem to us very good, especially a sketch of the Pope in Council, compiled from photo- graphs, and wonderfully clear ; and there is an effort to make the paper readable which its great rival has for years steadily avoided. In the effort solidity has perhaps been sacrificed too completely, but the history of pictorial papers indicates that their success or failure is absolutely independent of the letterpress. One good illus- trated paper is really wanted, and if competition stirs the managers of the News into a little more energy, those who have started the Graphic will have done service. They would like, we daresay, to suc- ceed for themselves; but succeed or fail, the public will be the gainers.
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