11 DECEMBER 1915, Page 16

"AMERICA UNNEUTRAL." [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SrEOTATOR.1 Srn,—Professor

Harper's letter to the New York Tribune, which you reprint in your last issue, makes me think that the following extract from a letter from Princeton, N.J., of Octo- ber 30th last may be of interest in connexion with one of the young Americans referred to as serving in the British and French Armies :— "We have just heard of John Poes death. He was an American, a great-nephew of Edgar Allan Poe and a Princeton man, one of the beat and certainly the moat popular and well-known of our old football heroes. lie had enlisted in the Black Watch, under an assumed name, and was killed in France."