New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-22

The Times in Cabinet and other Government matters
has usually been sngularly early and accurate, and
they have wsg of not printing II as news, but
using IT 10 leader; 80 that, IN fact, you must read
the leaders before you be sure you have Cleaned
the real news out OF this paper. But II were to
mention the names OF all the men who IN one way
or another during the last twenty years have been
connected with The Times. and are known to have
been | should call the roll Of half the statesmen
and soldiers and writer's and great lawyers of the
day. They may not have been on the regular stan,
but this journal has always known how to get what
it wanted written on the topic of the moment from
the man most competent to do 1t. The secret OF
these occasional contributors is sometimes Kept and
sometimes not II depends pretty much on whether
they wish il kept, which they do not always tor
however great man may be IN his own profession
writing in The Tines adds a certain luster. You
NAV often hear particular leaders attributed to such
and such outsiders, and you would not always be
wrong if you inferred that the rumor was set going
by the writer and not by anybody inside the office.
Men holding high Office, however scarcely
afford luxury Of this kind and some men of high
place in literature are extremely unwilling to have
it supposed they write for the papers. ] remember
that serious offense was once given by letter
printed in New York describing an annual dinner
given by certain journal to its contributors. The
mischief lay in publishing the names of the prin-
cipal guests The guests themselves, however were
not angry; il was the proprietor who was angry
in their behalf fearing lest they might dislike to
have their presence such an occasion known. and
not write for him any more They never heard of
it, probably.
Not to 90 beyond the regular staff OF the present
or a very recent period, may name Russell, Dasent
Courtney. Oliphant Dallas. Sampson, Abel, Gal
tbor. TppD xyhO
places on The Times are or were as well known in
London as-well, say the members Of the existing
government who are not members of the Cabinet
| have purposely chosen from various departments
of the paper In what sense this be called i'm
PERSONAL journalism In one undoubtedly that
the name of the contributor appears that 1t ~
always TIE Times or The Times correspondent saws
this or that. never Mr. A. or Mr. b. individually. But
that is not what Mr.. Watterson means.
OF other papers this is true TO the same extent,
or proportional extent. Everybody knows, or II
he does not know aud cares to ask will be told by
the first person to whom be applies, that the editor.
of The Daily Nt7cs is Mr.. Frank Hill. Mr.. Hill is
much younger man than Mr.. Delane, and hls con
troll over The Daily Reos dates back not more than
three four years, but the fact Of his becoming
editor of that paper gave him instant celebrity,
which is the point l beg Mr.. Watterson to note.
Since then Mr. Hill has made his mark in society as
brilliant talker as well as brilliant
writer. There is no shrewder observer of
men and things nobody more familiar with what
goes on in the world with the talk of clubs and
especially of that best of clubs the House of Com
mons no man who at the Same time is more init
mate with Radical leaders, knows better from
contact with the world how far il is safe TO carry
his paper on a path ! must admit he is
scholarly person. if that be reproach TO him. and
may add that no man unless he possesses, to use
Lord Palmerston's phrase, great attachments
and information could gain or keep an
important place Oh important Lon
don paper. Nor is the manager of The Daily
Mems Mr.. J. X. Robinson, altogether myth or
mere name. Readers of these letters know him well
enough already. for have said something of his scr
vices and of the rare capacity which has enabled
him 10 oustrip all rivals in the organization of the
news department of his paper His success was the
talk of London in 1870, and Mr.. Watterson may
Judge whether there is human nature enough among
Englishmen. and curiosity enough. to insure some
thing being found out about the man who achieved
all that Or is Mr. William Black, the author of
1.-THE Daughter of Heth" aud THE Princess of
Thule" shadow of a name.-the most successful of
recent novelsts and of the most successful and
valued of journalistic Or Mr.. Forbes, the cor
respondent of 1901 with all a soldiers knowledge
of war; and taking place by the side of Russell
descriptive writeri Or Mr.. Justin Mccarthy, with
his double fame in England aud in America Or
Miss Martneaui Or Rae or Hilary Skinner,
Pigott or Clayden, or Walker.-a men of high rank
on the same iournal.-which of all these is to be
cassed as an unknown recluse, and as the victim to
impersonaln journalism
Az for The Daily ToLegrdph it's management and
edtorship have always been kept to a great extent
in the hands OF one of its propretors Mr. Levy. |
NAV almost say | never went down TO the House
that did not see Mr.. Levy there His personal re-
lations with Mr. Gladstone, and with Mr. Gladstones
lieutenant, Mr.. Glvn, lately first Whip, now Lord
Wolverton are VIGOROUSLY intimate. His name
figures in The Morning Post often in the lists of
guests at fashionable parties that / suspect Mr. Wat
terson of not studying that great of social
information Lately there was serious question Of
making him baronet, and l supposeihis elevation
TO that rank is only question of time, a rank to
which il is not the custom to elevate dummies schol
aTly or otherwise. Under Mr. Levy, Mr. Thornton
Hunt held the chief post until his death, and he
went TO his grave followed by train of mourners
distinguished alike by their love for him aud their
honorable place in the world. Mr.. Hunts successor
is Mr. Edwin Arnold, scholar no doubt for he has
published book the Greek Poets, but man OF
most energetic mind and wide acquaintance with
affairs You can turn to his biography if you like
in Men of the Time where also you will lind Mr..
Edward Dicey's, another eminent contributor to
The Tele2raph and Mr. George Augustus Saa's, whose
peculiar fame must have penetrated even as far as
Louisville. Lately there was Mr.. Felix Whi.ehurst
Paris correspondent, and in his way certainly the
most renowned OF them all, an habtae Of the TuiIe
ries in the Emperor's time What, by the way
would become of the correspondence of the London
journals # the men who wrote it shut themselves up