13 NOVEMBER 1915, Page 16

AN EARLY ALLUSION TO PACIFICISTS.

[TO TRIP EDITOR or rue SPECTATOR."] SIR.,—In answer to the appeal of your correspondent a 0. B.," I should like to quote Virgil, Aen., XI., 11. 378 gen.

"Larga guidon', Prance, simper tibi copia fandi Tura, earn bona mantis poscunt, patribusque vocatis Primus :taus. Sad non replencla est curia verbis, Quits tuto tibi magna. volant, dam distinct host= Agger murorum nee inundant sanguine fossae."