Show LONDON journalists some editorial pens peni and ren mentill till leon 10 leigh sin sirs that leaders art ire goerig oat of f Fail lioa ia tin the donla Itin AnT paper world chicago daily hews LONDON sept 8 leaders bl by which I 1 m mean ean what are called editor editorials in america are gradually going out of fashion in england Eo eland the tendency ia is to make them shorter and shorter somo same papers only have one and a few dispense with them altogether the of a quarter arter of a column or less is taking I 1 their gu air place the daily bev fi ev 8 was the first morning paper to adopt the latter it gives now first a long political article usually written by herbery ller bery rani paul and always of a at strong rong tendency then than one ot of equal length by andrew lang or C knight the writer who baa has to a great extent taken the place of Jefferie sasa naturalist then three or four leader leide rettel ettes on the social events of the day these latter at are generally written ritten with a lighter touch than distinguishes the articles that precede them the two evening papers the st james gazelle gazette and pali pall mall clazelle gazette have each only one leader the evening standard has none worthy of the name only half a dozen leader ettes some of of these written with much sparkle and wit are by mrs Far farcau manof of paris ft hose whose husband acts as second paris correspondent ful to the he P paper a pr the chief correspondent being ga W V J bowes old bowes as he be is called every morning daily has its regular set of leader writers who do on an average tour four leaders a week each the subject of course being given out every day or to the majority each evening by the editor A few of them are able to do their work at home but as a rule role they go down to their office omee abut 1039 stay till the their r articles are done and get home when they can on most ol 01 the papers the fee is four guinea a leader that is on the great dailies the smaller papers pay less the times pays five guineas but sy ut the majority ot of the times timm leaders are written by men retained at fixed salaries which vary from to 1300 a year ua on the times E 1 D J wilson usually does the first and most important article vi hichi keeps b him im pretty late at the office es especially ly during the parliamentary session when at a any n y momen moment it up to I 1 3 30 10 a m or even la later t e r he lie may be pet to write breathlessly ly on some unexpected turn in I 1 the be political affairs of the country the other leader writers go homo home when they have fin I 1 abbed their wo work rk though usually one Is kept hanging about the office till the paper goes to arese in case the queen should commit suicide or westminster abbey be blown up or any other little event demand the pen na of a ready writer there are lots of fc fi tories told of things that bavo have happened happen d to tho the last leader writer left on th the a spot john macdonnell no relation ra lation to the late manager of the of the same name who died soon boon alter after the parnell commission commie sion exposure and was said to have died of pigott is one 0 of I 1 the chief writers on the dady daily telegraph h and author of an article artl clo on aur european 0 po morals which appeared la in the A aan oria A america some ye years ars a ago go and made a stir I 1 in a the cl clever ever world john MacD macdonell nell is a clever lawyer and facile writer he ile has had the luck to bo on tho the spot two or three times late at night when all the other leader writers bad cone zone home and be he has promptly been made into the emergency man 11 on one occasion cas ion there was a landslip in india macdonnell knew know nothing about india or its geographical eat and geological eon conditions editions dit ions ho ile pro protested in vein vain that all rill he lie knew was that it was said to ba rather hot out there he wai presented with hill a dozen cram books a map or two shut up in a roo room m and told to produce a learned and aque leader of a column at least tons t in in an n conr and a halt half lie ile did and WAS congratulated in getting it through with ith only two blunders another time wagner was EO to inconsiderate as to die at 1 or 1 30 in the morning at least it was just a about bout bat that time when the telegram arri vedi abing aying that the great composer h had d gone above to let he ilia angels know t they ey play on their harps any moro more but only harmonies and eccentric c chords A an III article tor for the morning issue was ab sol Eoln tely essential dr was at that time musical critic to the timea as well as occasional leader writer it was liu flu efler effer who had been chiefly instrumental in bringing wagner to england and who was bettor better qualified fled to write about him than any one alive but lia effer was safe sur in a tile ha bosom of lis family at kensington once again john Ala macdonnell cdonnell was caught caugh tand and though he declared that he knew nothing at all about music and find could hardly tell a lute flute from a tambourine he managed to turn on out it an excellent leader much to the as ment of dr haeffer Hu effer who could coot d hardly believe his eyes when lien he e open ened tho the the vex boxt tw morning another of tho the best known leader writers on tho the atin is richs richard d Thure field he ile was an oxford don I 1 ut nt was tempted by an offer of a calary a good deal larger than be pained gained ab at the university to c come ome to london and attach him himself 0 0 the paper p e r lie ile is a violent bome ruler but this tendency he carefully rocc aale in official hour he ile is a solid and able writer a middle aged man of about five and forty lias lim one oue eye liven in bloomsbury cloke to tha the british mus museum euman anil d entertains a goodseal good deal among cals cale and liter aries humphrey ward ia 13 alsa also on tha ilia s taff lie ia in chiefly remarkable al being the husband cf of be the authoress of he ile is to 0 o know a good deal about art and in Is said sald to make a boid deal cl more calcey ab by 1 buying a p acturo and bellg I 1 it again n he ile alio it writes what may way be termed the literary leader of t ha lia times when it has one which is not of odeil too on thin the ether other dailies above and beyond all the bastka best known leader w writer rit r indeed n d tha beet bed known in 51 eed eng england 1 f for th the matter of that is george aug augustas u ta sa sala la who is a as said id to have the t p pen n the quickest sickest temper 11 the reddest no noaa atil and one OE of f the best beat hearts in london lie ile is t too do well ell known even in america to need much description lie ile is a on one 0 of the I 1 lucky writers who get th their ir co copy py e early r I 1 y do it at home send it down by the boy to the office and go out to d dine ine it the they choose h so lie ile ts Is of course on the daily telegraph and has been looser longer attached ed to it than any one else after him on the edme paper the 01 foldesi deal writer is to herbert J stack lie he nearly always doea the leaded leader on foreign affairs lie ile also does the article 01 on th the chief event ot of th otay anch such as a royal wedding or a hanging or some eccentric caso case in the law courts which does not necessarily involve legal knowledge herbert stack is is a jolly and particularly ticul arly handsome irishman a I 1 little ittle past middle age he ile is an I 1 inveterate 11 vet erate first nighter at lie the theaters a great favorite with the ladlee ladies an excellent talker and has a IL pleasant appetite for social functions he ile too very often does his copy at home he ile said of himself once that he found it very easy to w write 1 te and d that he always disc discovered overe d t a articles he wrote when under the influence of a bad headache were the beet best be wrote on the standard the two bast best on known lea leader d er writers are alfred austin the would be poet laureate of the future and sidney low now editor of the st james jaes gazette he ile however does not writ write so frequently since he has had a paper of his own alfred austin is very much in with the political crowd goes a good deal into smart society and is supposed to know everything that IH g going on he ile is one of the few ini intimate tim te friends al 11 II mudford editor of the paper has among bis his staff stair and since escott was forced by ill health to leave the standard I 1 ia probably its mainstay as a leader anter curtice the sub editor occasion occasionally all does a lea derbut not often madford like the majority of editors never ever n writes but bat he corrects and tinkers the co copy of others so much that it is is aibe eaid be bai ba sometimes timea not left a aenlo ein gle sentence intact as its it was vas original onel nally ly written dr crichton writes some leaders for the standard he ia is a careful and clever man kebbel kebbe the biographer of beaconsfield Beacons Beld field Is t alio also one of its staff but kebbel I 1 is perhaps too stanch a tory tor for the standard which for all its supposed position 9 it as a govern government ent organ hat has asti distinctly c ti liberal tendencies but ba notwithstanding wit standing stan hia Is present proud position t the elea leader er writer always it thinks hinks himself one of the bosses of the paper the be daya of the leaders are ale numbered in time is too short to read them the sparkling little ells tells all that one wants to know for now what the newspaper reader seeks even in en england g and ia is news LEON |