The sudden death of Mr. H. W. Massingham on Wednes-
day, August 27th, must bring to the readers of the Spectator a sense of very personal loss and sorrow. It is true that it is only a little more than a year ago that Mr. Massingham began to contribute to the Spectator. He had then just relinquished the editorship of the Nation, and for the moment he was without a regular place for exercising his immense talent as a writer. It was with the object of remedying this state of things that we asked him to contribute those sincere and distinguished articles under the general heading of " The Other Side," which appeared in our columns last year. So satisfactory did the arrangement prove, both to the readers of the Spectator and to Mr. Massingham, that he continued his contributions, not only on subjects on which his views were different from ours, but on those on which they were identical. It is only a few weeks ago that we printed his vivid analysis of the present state of Liberalism, and we were looking forward to his acting as an occasional dramatic critic next winter.
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