The amalgamation of the New York Herald with the Sun
by their new proprietor, Mr. Munsey, ends the independent career of a very famous newspaper. The Herald was founded in 1835 by James Gordon Bennett, then a poor journalist, and is said to have owed its rapid success to the fact that it printed news rather than opinions. But it gained a world-wide reputation under Bennett's son, who managed the paper from 1872 until his recent death. It was the younger Bennett who sent Stanley to find Livingstone, who fitted out the luckless Polar expedition pf the 'Jeanette,' and who promoted other costly enterprises that would provide attractive reading in the Herald. His later practice of conducting the editorial policy of the Herald by telegraphic orders from Paris or the Riviera was, however, an eccentricity that weakened the paper. We must add that, if the Herald had to disappear, it could not have been absorbed by a better newspaper than its older contemporary the Bun.
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