The _Times_, a daily then only a year old, and destined to live only eighteen months more--later, of course, the title was used by a successful daily--said that everything in the _Sun_ story was probable and plausible, and had an “air of intense verisimilitude.” The New York _Sunday News_ advised the incredulous to be patient: Our doubts and incredulity may be a wrong to the learned astronomer, and the circumstances of this wonderful discovery may be correct. The _Courier and Enquirer_ said nothing at all. Like the _Journal of Commerce_, it hated the _Sun_ for a lucky upstart. Both of these sixpenny respectables stood silent, with their axes behind their backs. Their own readers, the Livingstons and the Stuyvesants, got not a line about the moon from the blanket sheets, but they sent down into the kitchen and borrowed the _Sun_ from the domestics, on the shallow pretext of wishing to discover whether their employees were reading a moral newspaper--as indeed they were. The _Herald_, then about four months old, said not a word about the moon story. In fact, that was a period in which it said nothing at all about any subject, for the fire of that summer had unfortunately wiped out its plant. On the very days when the moon stories appeared, Mr. Bennett stood cracking his knuckles in front of his new establishment, the basement of 202 Broadway, trying to hurry the men who were installing a double-cylinder press. Being a wise person, he advertised his progress in the _Sun_. It may have vexed him to see the circulation of the _Sun_--which he had imitated in character and price--bound higher and higher as he stood helpless. The third instalment of the literary treasure so obligingly imported by the “medical gentleman immediately from Scotland” introduced to _Sun_ readers new and important regions of the moon--the Vagabond Mountains, the Lake of Death, craters of extinct volcanoes twenty-eight hundred feet high, and twelve luxuriant forests divided by open plains “in which waved an ocean of verdure, and which were probably prairies like those of North America.” The details were satisfying: Dr. Herschel has classified not less than thirty-eight species of forest trees and nearly twice this number of plants, found in this tract alone, which are widely different to those found in more equatorial latitudes. Of animals he classified nine species of mammalia and five of oviparia. Among the former is a small kind of reindeer, the elk, the moose, the horned bear, and the biped beaver.