Hubbard's Right-Hand Record and Newspaper Directory (H. P. Hubbard, New
Haven, Conn.) is a complete list of all American newspapers, and all the leading newspapers in the world. The infor- mation about non-American newspapers is very slight and imperfect. On the other hand, the catalogue of those published in the United States and the Dominion of Canada seems to be, as far as we can judge, very full and complete. And certainly both the totals and the details arc somewhat amazing. There are, it seems, between eight and nine hundred dailies, and more than eight thousand "weekly, tri-weekly, and semi-weekly journals, in the United States and Terri- tories." New York has one hundred and thirteen of the former and eight hundred and forty-seven of the latter. These claim an aggre- gate circulation of three millions and a half. The total circulation is something less than thirteen millions, and the monthly and semi- monthly papers add between three and fear millions more. The smallest places seem to support their journal, which has a circulation sometimes exceeding the number of inhabitants. Snohomish, in Washington Territory, for instance, has its Northern Star, which circulates its 450 among 300 inhabitants. The 258 inhabitants of Whatcom, in the same Territory, require the same number of the Bellingham Bay Mail. But 450 seems the conventional expression
for a minimum. Many of these literary beings are, it would seem, short-lived. In a page of addenda, made necessary by changes
since the bulk of the volume was set up in type, 12 journals appear with the mournful word "dead" opposite their names. Wilkesbarre, in Virginia, for instance, is the poorer by the loss of the Plain Dealer, Although it had, or claimed, a circulation of 5,000.
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