Should the criticism be made that this book is not all-inclusive, let it be remembered that there can be no really complete history of the Sun except itself—the tons of files in which for eighty-five years Sun men have drawn their pictures of life’s procession. In a narrative like this only the outlines of the Sun’s course, margined with incidents of the men who made it great by making it as human as themselves, can find room.
It is easy to begin a story of the Sun, because Ben Day and that uncertain morning in 1833, the very dawn of popular journalism, make a very real picture. Try to end it, and the roar of the presses in the basement is remindful of the fact that there is no end, except the arbitrary closing. This Sun, like Richmond’s—
By the bright track of his fiery car
Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The files of the Sun, 1833–1918.
“The Life of Charles A. Dana,” by James Harrison Wilson, LL.D., late Major General, U. S. V. Harper & Bros., 1907.
“Journalism in the United States from 1690 to 1872,” by Frederic Hudson. Harper & Bros., 1873.
“The Art of Newspaper Making,” by Charles A. Dana. D. Appleton & Co., 1895.