But now all these plans are made futile, and we
can only feel some consolation in the fact that the Spectator provided one of the means for Mr. Massingham to address his public. His earlier career has been recalled in the daily Press. His first important success was the editor- ship of the Star. Then he became editor of the Daily Chronicle, and made it the most distinguished daily paper in London. Then in 1907 the Nation was founded, and Mr. Massingham left the hurly-burly of the daily press for the comparative peace of a weekly review. But wherever he went, or whatever he did, there was one thing that Mr. Massingham never forgot, and that was how to write. In this the prime, the quintessential function of a journalist, he stood out as of the very first rank. We suppose that the Spectator and Mr. Massingham have found more occasions for difference than for agree- ment. But whether as an ally or as an opponent, he was sincere, courageous, powerful and chivalrous.
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