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Famous War Correspondents Overview
This historic book was published in 1914.
PREFACE:
This book contains a collection of biographical
sketches of representative war correspondents. I am
well aware that many men with valid claims to dis-
tinction as followers of the warpath are merely men-
tioned, if they are alluded to at all, and that a volume
of vivid tales could be compiled from the lives of such
artists and reporters as Melton Prior, H. C. Seppings
Wright, Julius Mendes Price, "Crimean" Simpson,
John Alexander Cameron, Lionel James, Frederick
Boyle, William Beattie Kingston, and "Fred"
Burnaby, to name but a few of the long list. A large
amount of material remains unused in my hands.
This selection has been based upon principles easy to
understand: that both men of action like Bennet Bur-
leigh and men of distinguished literary artistry like
George Warrington Steevens should be included; that
while treating of correspondents who "cover" the same
wars for rival journals, duplication should be avoided
by a judicious choice of incidents, and that the range
and variety of the work of the special correspondent
should be indicated by taking the reader to campaigns
in all quarters of the world. Also the method of ar-
rangement has been such that practically a history of
war correspondence is contained in the volume. The
citations from despatches are intended both to aid in
the narration of their adventures and to indicate the
quality of the prose that was written by the earlier
correspondents who used the mail and the later ones
who dashed for the wire. I do not claim to have dis-
covered new facts, but I have a measure of pride in the
attempt to rescue from forgetfulness the exploits of
George Wilkins Kendall and the other Americans whos
pioneer work for the press has never been recognized
in the history of journalism.
...........................................................................
Chapters:
I. The War Correspondent: His Rise and the Prob-
lematical Future of his Profession
II. Sir William Howard Russell
III. Archibald Forbes
IV. Januarius Aloysius MacGahan
V. Frederick Villiers
VI. Bennet Burleigh
VII. Edmond O'Donovan
VIII. The Five Vizetellys
IX. Edward Frederick Knight
X. George Warrington Steevens
XI. Winston Spencer Churchill
XII. James Creelman
XIII. George Wilkins Kendall
XIV. "Covering" the Civil War in America
XV. Reporting the Spanish-American War
.................................................................
"... the extraordinary devotion and energy of the press, of which the country may well be proud, have created, under very great difficulty, what may be called a war literature, unexampled in ability and interest, putting before the public all the various astonishing events which have so rapidly succeeded each other in this tremendous struggle."
- Lord Granville, 1870
..................................................................
"The life of the modern war correspondent cannot be described as being exactly a bed of roses. The glorious days of the profession, when William Russell and Archibald Forbes and their like flourished, have gone, never to return."
- Ellis Ashmead-Bartletl
..................................................................
"Those newly invented curses to armies, I mean newspaper corre-
spondents."
- Sir Garnet Wolseky.
Famous War Correspondents Specifications
This historic book was published in 1914.
PREFACE:
This book contains a collection of biographical
sketches of representative war correspondents. I am
well aware that many men with valid claims to dis-
tinction as followers of the warpath are merely men-
tioned, if they are alluded to at all, and that a volume
of vivid tales could be compiled from the lives of such
artists and reporters as Melton Prior, H. C. Seppings
Wright, Julius Mendes Price, "Crimean" Simpson,
John Alexander Cameron, Lionel James, Frederick
Boyle, William Beattie Kingston, and "Fred"
Burnaby, to name but a few of the long list. A large
amount of material remains unused in my hands.
This selection has been based upon principles easy to
understand: that both men of action like Bennet Bur-
leigh and men of distinguished literary artistry like
George Warrington Steevens should be included; that
while treating of correspondents who "cover" the same
wars for rival journals, duplication should be avoided
by a judicious choice of incidents, and that the range
and variety of the work of the special correspondent
should be indicated by taking the reader to campaigns
in all quarters of the world. Also the method of ar-
rangement has been such that practically a history of
war correspondence is contained in the volume. The
citations from despatches are intended both to aid in
the narration of their adventures and to indicate the
quality of the prose that was written by the earlier
correspondents who used the mail and the later ones
who dashed for the wire. I do not claim to have dis-
covered new facts, but I have a measure of pride in the
attempt to rescue from forgetfulness the exploits of
George Wilkins Kendall and the other Americans whos
pioneer work for the press has never been recognized
in the history of journalism.
...........................................................................
Chapters:
I. The War Correspondent: His Rise and the Prob-
lematical Future of his Profession
II. Sir William Howard Russell
III. Archibald Forbes
IV. Januarius Aloysius MacGahan
V. Frederick Villiers
VI. Bennet Burleigh
VII. Edmond O'Donovan
VIII. The Five Vizetellys
IX. Edward Frederick Knight
X. George Warrington Steevens
XI. Winston Spencer Churchill
XII. James Creelman
XIII. George Wilkins Kendall
XIV. "Covering" the Civil War in America
XV. Reporting the Spanish-American War
.................................................................
"... the extraordinary devotion and energy of the press, of which the country may well be proud, have created, under very great difficulty, what may be called a war literature, unexampled in ability and interest, putting before the public all the various astonishing events which have so rapidly succeeded each other in this tremendous struggle."
- Lord Granville, 1870
..................................................................
"The life of the modern war correspondent cannot be described as being exactly a bed of roses. The glorious days of the profession, when William Russell and Archibald Forbes and their like flourished, have gone, never to return."
- Ellis Ashmead-Bartletl
..................................................................
"Those newly invented curses to armies, I mean newspaper corre-
spondents."
- Sir Garnet Wolseky.
