It was announced on Monday that the competition for the
design of the War Medal to be issued in commemoration of the war has been awarded to Mr. Macmillan, of 14 Cheyne Row, Chelsea. The design represents a St. George on horseback trampling on the Prussian shield, with the dates "1914.1918." There does not appear to be any inscription on the medal. That, in our opinion, is a mistake, for, granted that the words are adequate and appropriate, they unquestionably enhance the significance of the design. We suggest in the present case a line borrowed from Pope, with one word of alteration; " 1914- 1918. Enough that valour filled the sPace between." As the words are Pope's and not ours, we may note how they express with a supreme economy of language the essential quality of the war. When all is said and done, it was valour that saved and sanctified the nation : valour on the field, valour at home, valour in the hospital, in the munition factory, and in every household In the land.
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