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devotion to a particular great or good cause. One 

 element in his make-up is readiness to take any side 

 of any question. 



Stead's tragic death in the sinking of the Titanic 

 removed one of the most notable figures in his pro- 

 fession, and if his life had been spared he would have 

 become increasingly important in the calamitous 

 years which followed. His two sons, excellent Liberal 

 journalists, one in London, the other in Australia, 

 were both connected with magazines called Review of 

 Reviews, originally founded by their father. 

 Men Stead said to me that "in any country there are 



worth or jy na if a dozen men worth knowing." I did not 

 get his list for England, but I myself found there 

 many men well worth knowing, - - more in London 

 than in any other city on earth, although Manches- 

 ter, from her heights of Liberalism, is prone to look 

 down on her sister as swayed by mediocre tradition. 

 The At one of the weekly luncheons of the Nation staff I 

 "Nation" met tne accomplished editor, H. W. Massingham, 

 and several of his associates, including Henry W. 

 Nevinson, poet, and expert on Near East affairs. 

 Hobson was also present on this occasion, and 

 Francis W. Hirst, the clear-headed, scholarly editor 

 of The Economist, who had lately published a remark- 

 able book, "The Arbiter in Council." No one else, 

 moreover, seems even yet to have so keen a vision of 

 the economic dislocation and wreckage sure to be 

 produced by war. 



Besides myself the only other outsider at the lunch- 

 eon was Dr. Josef Redlich, a professor in the 

 University of Vienna, an accomplished scholar and 

 one of the few intellectuals of his city not reduced to 

 penury by the war. 



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