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Updated: June 28, 2025
There's been a plucky thing done by a servant-girl in rescuing two children from a fire if there's a little testimonial to her, I'm in with my humble guinea. But there's nothing in the papers I'm glad I'm not a leader-writer." He went and got some more water for a jug of white lilies that stood on the table, and began to put things a little straight as if he were a woman. "Maurice!"
I was also for rather more than a year a leader-writer on the Standard my only experience of true daily journalism. Of this work I can only say that I enjoyed it very much while I was in direct contact with Mr. Mudford, one of the greatest of English publicists, and the man who made the Standard what it was from 1874 till about 1894, one of the most important papers in the country.
It was entitled The Drabious Duke, and it proceeded to set out the episode of Gorley's court-martial and execution. The facts, Drake recognised, were not exaggerated, but the sting lay in the suggestion with which it concluded. 'We have no doubt, the leader-writer stated, 'that both the court-martial and execution were in accordance with the letter of the law, but, since Mr.
Such are the illusions of the youthful leader-writer foolish, perhaps, but not ignoble. Some of my early leaders pleased the proprietors of the paper, one of whom was also the editor. It was arranged that I was to contribute regularly the chief article for Monday's paper.
Delane's power at one time was almost incalculable, and he gained it by unerringly finding out exactly what England wanted. England might be wrong or right that was none of Delane's business; he cared only to discover what his country wished for from day to day. An amazing function is that of an editor. Then we have the leader-writer.
He wanted me to be his mistress, in fact, but I wasn't in love with him and on my saying I should go away if he didn't agree to MY plan, he did so. We shared a sitting-room for fifteen months; and he became a leader-writer for one of the great London dailies; till he was taken ill, and had to go abroad.
Before that, he had been on the staff, a departmental editor, and a leader-writer. Hobart will go far, said Lady Pinkerton sometimes, when she read the leaders. 'I hope, on the contrary, said Lord Pinkerton, 'that he will stay where he is. It is precisely the right spot. That was the trouble with Carruthers; he went too far.
During the latter ten years of this period he had been a most effective and forcible leader-writer on political and social questions, never more so than during the storm and stress of the Civil War. Outside of these topics he had devoted a great deal of attention to matters connected with literature and art. His varied abilities were fully recognized by the readers of the journal he edited.
Believe me, the notion of the political journalist perpetually writing leaders against his own convictions is a pure figment of the popular imagination. No doubt an editor will sometimes ask a leader-writer not to put a particular view so strongly as he, the leader-writer, is known to feel it, but such reticence cannot surely be regarded as insincerity on the ethics of anonymity in journalism.
The concentrated hopes of that old man's life were blasted and blighted for ever; and he found a temporary relief from that stunning shock in the artificial and insincere condolences of a stock leader-writer on a daily paper!
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