The German editors who are paying a visit to this
country under the auspices of the Anglo-German Friendship Com. mittee, presided over by Lord Avebury, were entertained at dinner on Thursday evening at the Whitehall Rooms. The speeches of the chairman (Lord Avebury), the Lord Chan- cellor, the German Ambassador, and Mr. Bryce were all in excellent taste, but the most interesting utterances of the evening were those of two editors,—Dr. Theodor Barth and Mr. Spender. Dr. Barth, the distinguished editor of Die Nation, who spoke in fluent English, uttered a journalistic home-truth well worth remembering when be declared that " the readers were the masters of the writer, and many a writer found it more convenient to follow his masters than to educate them." We are delighted that so distinguished a party of German editors should visit England, and we trust that they will find their stay agreeable in every possible way. That they will meet with nothing but courtesy and friendliness here is a foregone conclusion.
