Žemaičių ir Lietuvos apžvalga

In fall 1889, students at the Kaunas Priest Seminary decided to establish Apžvalga by copying the example of the Polish Przewodnik Katolicki [pl].

Clerics at the Sejny Priest Seminary disliked Apžvalga due to its inconsistent and outdated spelling as well as its ideology.

Therefore, they were more supportive of Varpas until 1894 when its editor Vincas Kudirka strongly criticized Caritatis, encyclical regarding the Church in Poland issued by Pope Leo XIII.

[5] Priests Kazimieras Pakalniškis and Adomas Jakštas debated the issue of Russian officials visiting local clergy houses: Pakalniškis argued that to keep the police on friendly terms, priests could offer a bottle of vodka or a bribe of a few rubles, while Jakštas argued against such practices.

Many members of the clergy still supported a Polish–Lithuanian union in the spirit of the old Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the newspaper did not confront the Catholic hierarchy over its preference for the Polish language.

It opposed Lithuanian emigration to United States and encouraged taking up trade or craft to improve one's financial condition.

[5] While it fiercely attacked the Tsarist regime on religious issues, it did not comment on the social order or Tsar's political power.

[5] The newspaper was printed in a press owned by Otto von Mauderode in Tilsit (present-day Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast).

Its official editors were Enzys Jagomastas (first 18 issues), Mikelis Kiošis (1890, 1892–1895), and priest H. Wischmann from Žibai and Šilgaliai[7] (1891, 1896; Lithuanian spelling of the last name: Vychmanas).