New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-10
4 Batch of Papers

Of attack, and for time they had to endur.
a certain measure Of public favor. as ma,
who had told you-so. But as the Irish qu.,
ton approaches settlement, as labor take,
control Of a new province each month, ard
as radicalism honeycombs the British Com.
monweslth. they are regaining their aneien,
role Of Cassandra.
To talk Of English weekly journalism And
omit Horatio Bottomiey and his John Bull"
would be as unfortunate as dropping Geory.
Conan and Billy Sunday from a list Of lead
ers Of American thought. Very simply Bot.
tomley SAYS recently:
Bottomley's Unique Influence
81 sneak as the editor Of journal which
eniovs a circulation and weds an influence
UNIQUE in newspaper history; and as or.
who. for good or evil. has gained thc ear and
the confidence Of a sufficient section Of N.
British public 20 make or unmake Minister'S
Stated with true British restraint, that /,
a minimum appraisal Of the place Bottoml.y
holds in public esteem. In the same issue
Lloyd George learns he is not 70 be broker
AZ the first kickoff $50 long as he does
tbis-but rot a day longer-he may rely for
what IL may be worth, upon my unqualified
and disin.erested support" ! heard a British
colonel say the other day that BottomlsJ
should have been in the Cabinet. He writes
a picture postcard style, like that Of Arthur
Brisbane. which is spotted with battle cries
and catch phrases like "a business govern.
mont" "Germany's death rattle He is
really funny in a way that punch would
like 10 be. He has genuine pity for the 10,
If the moor. and think in that. and not IN
his raw conceit and vugarty and barren
ness Of ideas. lies the secret Of his hold on
- section Of the mass people. When II comes
% the downright spade work Of reconstrue
tion. where bright phrases are not sub.
stitute for hard thinking. foresee sharp
tussel for mastery between the Bot,omlsY
tvne Of mind and the real leaders Of England.
Surely the real leaders are men like Seebohn
Powntree Zimmern, Lionel Curtis and Nil
nor who put fundamental brain work on the
industrial and imperial problems. Mean
while. I read John Bull" and so does Eng
land.
There is no wrench in passing from Bot
tomley to Lord Northcliffe. Both are "pfss
tical men," who want things done now
Northclifrc is a big genial man. carrying
sense of immediate power lie suggested TO
me cross between district leader ana q
captain of industry. He will do anytime
for you personally, just like a IammilI
captain. 1t gives him sense Of his eU
power. and il expresses genuine human
liking in his makeup. There was restrain
in English journalism before his time
noticed the other day that he published II
his Daily Mali cartoon by Raemaeker
and used an underline which made II seen
that Raemaekers had drawn his picture IA
order TO throw scorn on Niscount GREY
Actually. the caption had been faxed in the
office. to serve the political ends Of the
paper. | am not trying 10 offer wise con-
illusions in this; | am only recording I'M
pressions after many years OF daily reading
in the English press So | leave Northellhe
with no formulated opinion. ! see valuable
service in his hard hitting. but ] dstrus'
something i'm the man which ! fsei TO o.
ruthless and immoral. 1t seems 70 me IN
English. or else I am all wrong about the
tonnerateness and the kindness OF Englisi
character.
The Best Review
The best Of the reviews IS the Round
Table" A group OF men. like Lionel GURUS
Kerr and A. +. Zimmern, are working mere
al the principles of reconstruction Tot m
dustrv and the empire. II rs solid, close.
ought work wrestling at the problems Of
the modern world. with an absence OF theory
and rhetoric. No other single puoHesuVn
has had the influence of the Round Table
in directing British public opinion. Inc
Round Table" helped 10 prepare the ground
for the changes which came through WIN
the war. They and the Fabian Group and
the Workers Educational Association, and
the workers themselves. have among them
snrung the most dramatic revolution IN one
hundred years. and it is still only IN us
faint beginnings.
Somebody is going to tell me that my lis'
isn't complete. and that I have omitted the
most weighty. the most significant paper on
the island But this IS not catalogue, ana
II is not a guide to self-help. 1t IS merely
the record Of one mans likes who reads io'
pleasure. So let them bring forward tnef
chambers "Hibberts Journal quar-
terly Review" and THE Edinburgh Truth