[Illustration: THE EDITOR OF “THE DOCTRINAIRE” (AS HE APPEARED READING HIS PAPER—“CAUSES OF OUR SUCCESS IN SOUTH AFRICA,” TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY)] Long after the war was over, but a full year before any mention of the M’Korio Delta had been publicly made, the editor of _The Doctrinaire_—a man wholly above suspicion—wrote to Mr Barnett, and asked him if he could recommend some young fellow to sub-edit that great weekly journal during his own enforced absence upon a shooting party in Scotland. I know from Mr Powler himself what passed. Mr Barnett came in person to the office of _The Review_, climbed to the third story (no small sacrifice in a man of his temperament and figure!) and begged Mr Powler to accept the post. “It is better paid,” he said, “and a bigger place altogether than anything that I could offer you.” Then he added with a smile: “You know the advice that I always give to you young men.” It was in vain that Mr Powler (so he himself assures me), pleaded to remain in the service of a man whom he could not but regard as the builder of a new world. He knew that Mr Barnett was making a great sacrifice in permitting him to go, and it was only after a generous dispute that the older man had his way. Mr Powler took with him to _The Doctrinaire_ Mr Heinrich Rallé, and between them they gave a life and a meaning to the paper which recalled the great days of John Hardy and the successful, strenuous battle in favour of the unification of Italy in the sixties. When the editor of _The Doctrinaire_ returned from Scotland, he found the beginnings of a fortune; and it seems to me not unnatural that he should, under the circumstances, have permitted something of a new policy to appear in his pages, or that he should have been drawn towards Mr Barnett with a sentiment approaching to affection. Talent of this kind is rare in modern journalism. The proprietors of _The Nation_ privately approached and obtained the services of Mr Henry Rallé. I will not enter into the somewhat heated difference that arose between _The Doctrinaire_ and _The Nation_ relative to this matter. I will content myself with saying that Mr Raleigh infused a new life into the latter paper, erased from its outer cover the phrase “an Hebdomadal Journal,” permitted the insertion of illustrations, and in the general tone he imparted to its articles made it what it had never been before; a vigorous ally of all that makes for the larger life of England. It was on this occasion that Mr Barnett’s friendship with Mr Jenkins, a proprietor of _The Nation_, arose; and it is a singular example of his tact and care for detail, that, during the four or five years which have since elapsed, in all the multitude of dinners that either have eaten under Mr Barnett’s roof, Mr Jenkins and the editor of _The Doctrinaire_ have never met.