more spectacular than edifying. Lord Camrose's resourcefulness is great. He may find it possible to retain the "Morning Post" as distinct from the "Daily Telegraph" but the lrcumstances of the purchase make it doubtful, The internal history newspaper management cannot, satisfactorily be discussed without access to data which are not) normally at public disposal. It is! therefore futile to attempt to say; fat what point the "Morning Post" which was founded in 1772 and celebrated its 50,000th issue on. Sept. 19, 1932, amid congratulations from friends and foes alike, might have been preserved to continue the useful function of voicing conserva~ tive opinion as a salutary check on over-zealous empiricism. Many, remembering the palmy days associated with the Borthwick regime will be Inclined of Oliver Borthwick, the son and designated successor of Lord. Glenesk, as Algernon Borthwick. became in 1895, was fatal. From that time the paper seemed always, to be dogged by uncertainty, although it brilliantly -maintained the literary traditions which set it apart from all its contemporaries.
For the Borthwick policy in Oliver's hands seemed to give the Journal's conservatism a less rigid and obscurant touch than that which kept it so manifestly out of tune with the bulk of the official Conservative party in its later years, The soundness of its imperial vision was never in question when the Issue concerned the fundamental principles of British liberty. Where it seemed to go Tu these days when the financing of a daily newspaper is so intricate and elaborate an adventure it Is unwise to lay too much stress on accidents of polley. 'The "Morning Post" was believed to have been heavily hit" by" the' disastrous speculation of the - newspaper "boom just after the war. It may well be that that had consequences which no editorial excellence could remedy. Still it fs.signiflcant that the present change in its fortunes coincides with the amalgamation of the "National Review" and. the "English Review" and follows various other developments which, for example, have virtually elimin nated the right-wing Conservative policy from representation in the senior ranks of Journalism, The Tate Lady Houston's death has no doutlt been one factor in the change, Her munificent if overwhelming support of unbending toryism produced an unhealthy vigour which collapsed by reason of its very unreality when she was no longer alive to discharge the functions of.
ry godmother. The present occasion, however, chiefly demands generous recognition of a fine literary record. "In its early days the "Morning Post" tad as Its Teader-writers or staff contributors mon like Coleridge, Southey, and Wordsworth. 'The traditions' thus established wore honourably_preserved, 80 that, however much the reader' might ' disagree with the Journal's views, it was impossible to withhold admiration for its @evotion to the writing of good English. Tt managed to endow Adelity to that art with an alert perception of the best in modern literature. So It never made the mistake of confusing purity of Jangusge and diction with archaic modes of expression, Its passing—if such the event proves. to be—must be saluted with regret and with the tribute due to craftsmanship at its best,
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