Singleton (alias Violet Fane,
afterwards Lady Currie), Lady de Grey, Lady Constance Leslie and
the Hon. Lionel Tennyson.
Our programme for the first number was to have been the following:
TO-MORROW
Leader Persons and Politics Margot Tennant.
The Social Zodiac Rise and fall of
Professional Beauties Lady de Grey.
Occasional Articles The Green-eyed Violet Fane (nom-
Monster de-plume of
Mrs. Singleton).
Occasional Notes Foreign and Colonial
Gossip Harry Cust.
Men and Women Character Sketch Margot Tennant.
Story Oscar Wilde.
Poem Godfrey Webb.
Letters to Men George Wyndham.
Books Reviewed John Addington
Symonds.
Conversations Miss Ponsonby.
This is what I wrote for the first number:
"PERSONS AND POLITICS
"In Politics the common opinion is that measures are the important
thing, and that men are merely the instruments which each
generation produces, equal or unequal to the accomplishment of
them.
"This is a mistake. The majority of mankind desire nothing so much
as to be led. They have no opinions of their own, and, half from
caution, half from laziness, are willing to leave the
responsibility to any stronger person.
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