IN REMEMBRANCE OF " A STUDENT IN ARMS."
[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.")
Sin,—Enclosed is a small cheque payable to the editor of the Spectator. It would be a great privilege if I might be permitted, through you, to give it to some suitable object—books for men at the front, or any purpose you deem fitting—in devout remem- brance of " A Student in Arms." Hundreds of your readers must, like myself, have been profoundly moved at the news of his death in action. Through his writings in your columns he himself had become a personal friend and guide, and his utterances had become and are a possession for ever—part of that imperishable revelation of the heart of England which is being made through the writings of men at the front. We of the Dominions overseas are realizing now, if not before, that the heart of the Empire is England—the England of our dreams, indeed, but a reality—the mother of us all; and when we know her heart we understand some- thing of Milton's meaning when he said that " God, when He decrees some new and great thing, reveals Himself to His servants, and as His manner is first to His Englishmen." "O God, save all England "—and the Empire of which she is the heart—" and bless her with Thy Holy Hand."—I. am, Sir, Ac.,
Toronto, November 20th. CANADLiN Bonn. [We gladly accept the duty which " Canadian Born " lays upon us.—ED. Spectator.]
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