18 MARCH 1916, Page 12

[To TER EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Like your correspondent

" A Student in Arms," I also have experienced the joys and sorrows of a private, an N.C.O., and a commissioned officer. Surely the bond which exists between officers and men in the British Army is the bond of discipline, that discipline which is so gravely conspicuous by its absence in civil life. The want of discipline is the very canker-worm which has eaten out the heart of English civil life during past years.—I am,