A chief luxury and expense in which, when aware what my income was, I indulged myself freely was the purchase of Martial literature.

Only ephemeral works are as a rule printed in the phonographic character, which alone I could read with ease.

The Martialists have no newspapers.

It does not seem to them worth while to record daily the accidents, the business incidents, the prices, the amusements, and the follies of the day; and politics they have none.

In no case would a people so coldly wise, so thoroughly impressed by experience with a sense of the extreme folly of political agitation, legislative change, and democratic violence, have cursed themselves with anything like the press of Europe or America.