Up till last week Mr. W. W. Hadley, then 84,
and still occupying the editorial chair of 'the Sunday Times, must have been easily the oldest active editor of an important journal ; even Mr. Robertson Scott put his Countryman into younger hands when he reached eighty. Now Mr. Hadley has resigned, and whether the title Editor Emeritus is conferred on him or not he has abundantly earned it. Mr. H. V. Hodson, just forty years younger than his predecessor, takes over. A Fellow of All Souls, he gained distinc- tion, if not experience strictly germane to his new position, as Editor of the Round Table. He has been for some years Assistant- Editor of the Sunday Times, and with Mr. Valentine Heywood to support him as Managing Editor, and Lord Kemsley to co-ordinate everyone, including himself, the paper should be in safe hands.
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