historian appreciated the value of newspapers more than Macaulay, whose use of them in the preparation of his history os England was con- tinuous and effective. The first newspaper published in Lancaster that lived beyond what might be termed the experimental stage was the "Neue Unpartheyishe Lancaster

Seminary. It is emi- nently a reading community,as is evi- denced by its four daily newspapers, its weeklies, and many other period- ical publications, to say nothing of the metropolitan journals received here daily. To those conversant with the social and domestic life of our people, it is well known that

THE NEWSPAPERS OF LAN- CASTER COUNTY. In 1896 1 was induced to attempt the compilation of a bibliography of the newspapers, magazines and other pe- riodical issues of the press in the city of Lancaster from 1752 down to that time. Two or three previous attempts, and very successful ones, too, had