Abstract

Former Editors of the 'Nation'

The article focuses on some former editors of the periodical, the Nation. E.L. Godkin, founder and first editor of the Nation, to whose gifts and influence many articles in this issue have paid tribute, was born at Moyne, County Wicklow, Ireland, on October 2, 1831. In 1853, at the tender age of twenty-one, he published his first book, "A History of Hungary," a work of considerable merit. Journalist Wendell Phillips Garrison joined the staff of the Nation at its inception as literary editor, and soon by a natural process undertook the general supervision of the editorial side of the paper, relieving Godkin of the details of management and correspondence with contributors and leaving him more free to devote himself to editorial writing. Hammond Lamont, third editor of the Nation, was born at Monticello, Sullivan County, New York.