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thoroughly that uniform national views were quite impossible,
even before the Civil War. Perhaps an even more important
consequence of the telegraph was that in America the literary
talent was drawn into journalism, rather than into the book
medium. Poe and Twain and Hemingway are examples of writers
who could find neither training nor outlet save through the
newspaper. In Europe, on the other hand, the numerous small
national groups presented a discontinuous mosaic that the
telegraph merely intensified. The result was that the telegraph
in Europe strengthened the position of the book, and forced
even the press to assume a literary character.
Not least of the developments since the telegraph has
been the weather forecast, perhaps the most popularly
participative of all the human interest items in the daily press.
In the early days of telegraph, rain created problems in the