Hawthorne Nathaniel

Old News Hawthorne Nathaniel

The government, the interests, the opinions, in short, all the moral circumstances that were contemporary with their publication, have passed away, and left no better re- cord of what they were than may be found in these frail leaves. Happy are the editors of newspapers! Their productions excel all others in immediate popularity, and are certain to acquire another sort of value with the lapse of time. They scatter their leaves to the wind, as the sibyl did, and posterity collects them, to be treasured up among the best materials of its wisdom. With hasty pens they write for immortality.