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��" He found a thoroughly congenial employment in writing social and moral articles [for The Saturday], and became very intimate with other contributors, especially George Stovin Venables and Thomas Collett Sandars."

George Stovin Venables (1810-88) wrote the first leading article George Stovin in the first number, and Venables.

" from that date until very shortly before his death he contributed an article or two to that paper almost every week, and he probably did more than any other writer of his time to establish and maintain the best and strongest current style, and the highest type of political thought, in journalism. For at least twenty-five consecutive years from 1857 he wrote the summary of events which took the place of leading articles in The Times on the last day of each year."

The ' D.N.B.' states " that he was almost without an equal in the extraordinary force and charm of his character."

Among other notable contributors were Col. F. Cunningham Q ol F (son of Allan Cunningham), of whom an obituary notice appeared Cunningham. in The AthencBum of December 18th, 1875 ; and James Hamilton Fyfe, who had acted as assistant editor of The Pall Mall Gazette James from its beginning till 1871, when, the post of assistant editor of Hamilton The Saturday being vacant, Mr. Fyfe was asked to fill it. The F y* e - Athenaeum, in its obituary notice on the 15th of May, 1880, says that he had been obliged to relinquish this about two years previously on account of an acute attack of illness which disabled him from using his pen : " Many of the articles which attracted the readers of The Saturday Review were written by Mr. Fyfe ; and he had the knack of treating contemporary topics with great freshness, vigour, and geniality."

On the 29th of October, 1887, The A thenceum records the death Death of of Mr. Beresford Hope, the founder of The Saturday, stating that Beresford he deserves mention Hope.

" not only for his love of art and as proprietor of The Saturday Review, but also for the two novels he wrote quite late in life, and the succcess of which was a source of much gratification to him. The first of them, ' Strictly Tied Up,' originally appeared anonymously, and was only acknowledged by him when it proved popular. Another work of his later years was his volume on ' Worship and Order,' published in 1883. He was an excellent classical scholar, and was well versed in modern languages. Having been early in life an enthusiast for ' restoration,' he was naturally hostile to the anti-scrape movement, which he not very happily denounced as a ' Gospel of Death.' He presided over the Institute of British Architects for a couple of years."

Of other contributors I may mention Mark Pattison (1813-84), Mark a long obituary notice of whom appeared in The Athenceum, Aug. Pattison. 2nd, 1884 ; his wife (Emilia Francis Strong), afterwards Lady Dilke (see the obituary notice in The Athenaeum, Oct. 29th, 1904, and the memoir by Sir Charles W. Dilke which is included in ' The Book of the Spiritual Life,' published by John Murray) ; and Mr. Joseph

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