4 OCTOBER 1924, Page 10

THE LATE MR. MASSINGHAM.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—It is not without emotion that I read in the Spectator what is probably the last article written by H. W. Massingham. Alas ! he is dead. Those lines from Corsica are wafted to my distant home like " the sweet South stealing and giving odour." Delightful man, to whom I owe so many pleasant hours in your company, let me utter to your friends these last words of praise which you can never hear. What vigour what felicity of expression was his, what courage in argument,

what fidelity to justice ! Hail and farewell am, Sir, &c.,