Excerpt from Governments of the World to-Day: An Outline for the Use of Newspaper Readers

It is with some regret and with many doubts that the author sends this little work to the press. The undertaking is too great for the space allowed it, and yet it may be explained, as an extenuating circumstance, that there seems to be a demand for a work in one volume of moderate size, which should give in brief a few of the important facts concerning the principal governments of the world. The present age is one of newspapers and periodicals, and in spite of the fact that newspapers and periodicals must necessarily be superficial, they have become the most important mediums for literature and for news. With this enormous increase of periodical literature, there has gone hand in hand a correspondingly enormous increase in the number of readers. Many of these readers are not and never will be students, but they have begun a new era, and they are raising the standard of general education very materially in the United States. The great mass of these readers of periodical literature have but little time for such matters. They are men, women, and children who have much to do in life to support themselves, and they must give their attention largely to this work. And yet there is a desire constantly increasing among them to become better acquainted with the affairs that are taking place around them. Glancing day by day through the newspapers and periodicals, they find references to contemporary events, domestic and foreign, to men and things, which no paper can pretend to explain, which, in fact, the editors must take for granted as familiar to their readers.

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