17 JUNE 1922, Page 3

For many years he was a regular writer of leading

articles in the Bpectator, and for many years also he wrote in the Economist. After his rupture with the Guardian his friends helped to start a new paper ealled the Pilot, which lived for four ror five years. There could not have been a greater tribute to the extraordinary esteem in which Mr. Lathbury was held than .the fact that many of his driends contributed -money to a losing concern, although they. disagreed with Mr.

• Lathbury's politics on several points. They felt—and they were right—that personality and character like his were priceless gems in journalism, and that these thiaga.should be saved even at a great price.