1913;] Other Men of Mark 



Indiana, of which a former student of mine, Dr. 

 William A. Millis, is president, granted Marchant the 

 well-deserved honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. In 

 1919 Jane Addams, G. Stanley Hall, and I were 

 elected foreign vice-presidents of the National Wel- 

 fare Association. 



During my stay in London I again took luncheon 

 with the staff of The Nation. Massingham, its editor, 

 represents the far-sighted liberal minority in British 

 politics. Nevinson's appreciation of Thoreau's stand 

 for liberty touched my heart. With Hobson too I 

 renewed my former acquaintance. 1 



T. Fisher Unwin, publisher, anti-militarist, and 

 free trader, son-in-law of Richard Cobden, whose ( d 

 acquaintance I had also made in 1910, showed me 

 varied courtesies. In his home I now met for the first 

 time Alfred G. Gardiner, editorial writer for the Daily 

 News and Leader, a young man of energy and spirit, 

 alert to the meaning of events and possessed of a 

 power of character-analysis quite unique among 

 journalists. His illuminating, vigorous, and original 

 editorials rank with the best of their kind anywhere. 

 His sketches of leading men " Pillars of Society," 

 "Prophets, Priests, and Kings," and "The War 

 Lords" give such vivid pictures of prominent 

 personalities that the reader cannot help feeling he 

 actually knows the individuals in question. 



At Unwin's also I became acquainted with Lord 

 Welby, then past seventy but wielding still the sane 

 influence which had made him a power in the Liberal 

 party. If men of the type of Henry Campbell-Banner- 

 man, Lord Courtney, of whom I shall soon speak at 



1 See Chapter xxxvn, page 327-328. 



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