If any reader has acquired the power to _go on alone_ by pursuing the course, he has a rare piece of wealth, a capital which may produce the widest and best culture. “LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD.” The New York _World_ has done wondrously well to raise $30,000 by a popular subscription for the setting up of the Bartholdi statue in New York harbor. Our readers know that this colossal statue of “Liberty Enlightening the World” is a present from the French people, but that there has been no provision made for the cost of setting up the great work of French art. Various attempts to raise the necessary $100,000 have yielded but small results, and when the _World_ took hold of the matter the failure had become a very disagreeable joke for the press. Other newspapers have engaged in public enterprises. The New York _Herald_ sent a ship into the Arctic Ocean in search of the Pole. The New York _Tribune_ maintains by the subscriptions of its readers a “Fresh-Air Fund” which gives thousands of children an outing in the country during the hot months. The enterprise of the _World_ is, if possible, more praiseworthy, and its success in rescuing a lost cause is as honorable as it is unexpected. The subscriptions have been made by people of all conditions and fortunes, by boys and girls, by merchants, artists and laborers. A popular interest in the subject has been created, a great deal of information imparted, many mistakes corrected, and a popular support secured for a work of art. The work is in the line of large and healthy philanthropy, and the _World_ deserves unstinted credit. Let us all hope that it will carry the cause through to entire success.