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_From the “Chicago Tribune.”_
IN the death of Henry W. Grady the South has lost one of its most
eminent citizens and the newspaper press of the whole country one of its
most brilliant and dashing editors. He was a typical Southerner,
impulsive, sentimental, emotional, and magnetic in his presence and
speech, possessing those qualities which Henry Watterson once said were
characteristic of Southerners as compared with the reasoning,
reflective, mathematical nature of Northern men. His death will be a sad
loss to his paper and to the journalism of the whole country. He was a
high-toned, chivalrous gentleman, and a brilliant, enthusiastic, and
able editor, who worked his way to the top by the sheer force of his
native ability and gained a wide circle of admirers, not alone by his
indefatigable and versatile pen but also by the magnetism and eloquence
of his oratory. It is a matter for profound regret that a journalist of
such abilities and promise should have been cut off even before he had
reached his prime.
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