17 FEBRUARY 1917, Page 16

A CHRISTMAS LETTER FROM THE FRONT. [To THE EDITOR or

ins " SPECTATOR."]

Ssa,—Perhaps you may think the enclosed letter from Salonika worthy of a place in your columns. The writer, a scholar of his College (Oxford), who took a First Class in Modern Languages, enlisted in the University and Public School force in September, 1914, and now holds a commission in a well-known West Country regiment, has been abroad for thirteen months, and was recently