13 DECEMBER 1913, Page 16

LINKS WITH THE PAST.

[To THE EDIT013 OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Six,—My grandfather was present at the battle of Culloden in 1746. Being a boy of seven years old, he was not in the fighting line with his father in the Appin regiment, but in a carriage with his mother in the rear of the Highland army After the victory had declared itself for Cumberland's troops, the English soldiers surrounded the carriage and my grand- father remembered that a little ring was roughly plucked from