We record with great regret the death of Mr. Godkin,
the well-known American publicist, whieh took place at Torquay on Wednesday. Mr. Godkin, who was in his seventy-second year, was an Irishman by birth. Mr. Godkin will chiefly be remembered by his brilliant editorship of the Nation, which be founded in 1865, and of the New York Evening Post, which was amalgamated with the Nation in 1882. In politics Godkin was a Mugwump. In fact, as the Westminster Gazette reminds us, he was the first Mugwump, the nickname being created to fit him. It meant a great chief originally, but soon came to mean "the superior person." We were unable to agree with many of Mr. G-odkin's opinions, especially those in regard to the Spanish War, but he was a great newspaper man, and his influence was always fair and honourable, and cast on the side which he believed to be right. Even when agreeing least with him, his opponents were obliged to admit that. his statement of the other side was one which must be dealt with and taken acgount.of.
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