New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-18

Journal Of the Militia Volunteers. ceas
ing to he salaried member of the
"Times" staff, and being instead put on
the list of its contributors of the frst
class. Mr.. Atkins devotes a chapter 10
the "Gazstte." which gradually assumed
the importance of a semi-official organ
vet gained its influence through the FEAR
less outspokenness Of its editors COM
ments on the military needs of his coun-
try. Russell rarely touched upon naval
affairs himself. but found the right col
league in a retired naval commander
whom he trained to perfection.
Two years later the Times" called
Tor service as its correspondent in the
Civil War. He responded at once
Thackeray being among those who told
him that II was duty as well as an op-
portunty. Russell's experiences in TINS
country ere sufficiently we'll remem-
bered by Americans to he dealt WIN
briefly here His position was a peculiar
one. Sympathizing with the cause OF the
Union. he yet was convinced that the
South could not he coeroed. In addition
he had against bin a the North the pro-
Confederate attitude of his paper, Whlle
the South stood ready to lynch him on
account OF the tenor of his corresroh-
ience with which the editors of the
"'Times' never interfered. however much
at variance it occasionally was with their
own views and policy. 1t was Russell :
report of the first battle of Bull Run
that unccrked the phials of Northern
wrath. Then came the Sam Ward al
fair. Russell concluding. perhaps IRE
maturely. that his usefulness To his
paper at Washington and in the field had
come to an end. since he could not OBJ
tain permission for the moment To go to
the front He returned to London late
in 1862 In November of that year the
"Times" granted him a pension of 300
year
For the story of his later career the
reader must he referred TO Mr.. Atkinss
book He was with the Austrians at
Sadowa. with the Germans at Sedan
and before Paris. his letters to the
Times" involving him in bitter quar-
rel with Bismarck He visited Egypt,
accompanied the Prince Of Wales on his
tour of India. went to South Africa with
Sir Garnet Wolseley in 1879, toured chill
with Colonel North, the Nitrate King,
and reported Queen Victoria's Diamond
Jubilee for the Thunderer. In his ola
eee he opposed Mr.. Chamberlain's policy
toward South Africa. and drew upon MS
Ing experience to read his nation les
son during the historic Black Week.
IN an interview in the London Daily
Telegraph":
Reverses, The ordinary Enelshman has
not the remotest notion OF the extent ui
our experience in the matter OF rev go go
we have had them often and we nave n du
then, everywhere: the nation has never
suffered such drastic humiliations as upon
the eve of its most eXtraordlha1y duN"I -
I'm the work Of creating an empire. -,
things would have more sanitary err
,,non the vulgar and Wanting concert III
orr insular eeoism than revised version
of ropular history i'm the drum ana truinpet
~ English governments nave
usually failed to rise to a situation. D ,,la
the English people never once. II y w
way in which sheer national force mas 90.
rected government inefficiency in the great
est crises Of our history, which Suggests
that The strength that Is left In tnslann
will never he known until her enemies
think her beaten.
He died on February 10. 1901. the dean
and master. the creator of his PROBES
sion. honored at home and abroad MI
Atkins traces his influence in British
military affairs. and gives fun account
Of his friendships. with Thackeray ana
Dickens. Douglas Jerrod. Mark Lemon
John Biselow. clyde. Mcdowell and many
others. whose letters are reproduced III
part or in full