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are towns of 9 and 10 thousand inhabitants, where as many as
5 newspapers are published.
We here confine ourselves to giving a list of the chief existing
organs among the provincial papers of the west, north, south and
east parts of Norway respectively, with the year of their
foundation and their political shade. In Bergen — Bergens Aftenblad
og Bergens Adressecontoirs Efterretninger (1880 [1765]; Conserv.);
Bergens Tidende (1868; Lib.). In Trondhjem — Dagsposten (1877;
Lib.); Trondhjems Adresseavis (1767; Conserv.). In Kristiansand
— Christiansands Tidende (1883; Conserv.); Fædrelandsvennen
(1875; Lib.). In Hamar — Hamar Stiftstidende (1847; Conserv.);
Oplandenes Avis (1872; Lib.).
Magazines have always led a miserable existence in Norway.
There has been no lack of men with talent and energy, who have
tried to start periodicals of a scientific or popularly scientific
nature, but the attempt has seldom been crowned with lasting
success. Magazines of miscellaneous contents, intended for the
educated class of readers, have only in exceptional cases enjoyed
a longer life-time than from 5 to 10 years. The state of affairs
is naturally even worse in the case of the purely scientific
periodicals and professional papers, and the State has frequently had to
step in with its aid in order to ensure their existence. We give
below the names of the most important periodicals of miscellaneous
matter, that are now being published, some of them with
illustrations: Folkebladet, Folkevennen, For Kirke og Kultur, Kringsjaa,
and Samtiden.
In Norway the press has been more occupied with political
discussion than in most other countries. This is a natural
consequence of our historic development, especially in the latter half
of the 19th century. Although events have exercised a subduing
influence upon the tendency towards political discussion, much
labour and space is still bestowed upon this section of the
operations of the press, in some measure at the expense of others.
The endeavours, however, made by the Norwegian press to
keep the public au courant with intellectual and material
movements, are the more deserving of commendation from the fact
that the economic conditions of the Norwegian press generally
are very unfavourable. We venture to assert that it is scarcely
possible to point to any land where newspapers and advertising
are so cheap as here, while at the same time the circulation is
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