We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused – in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery – by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press – their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.
