16 APRIL 1910, Page 16

THE "SPECTATOR" EXPERIMENTAL COMPANY.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—A letter received by me this morning conveys, I think, an instructive lesson. One of our lads recently enlisted in

the ("Permanent ") Artillery of one of the Dominions, and has been " dismissed drill" in less than a month,—the normal duration of the recruit's course of instruction being six months. My point is that the lessons learned in six months at Hounslow do not appear to have been forgotten during an interval of nearly three and a half years. Yet our course has been con- demned as " cramming "!—I am, Sir, &e., Wingfield, Godalming. A. W. A. POLLOCK, Lieut.-Col.