21 JULY 1917, Page 12

VIRGIL AND THE WAR.

(To THE Eynon or THE "SreerAoau'7 fie,—Reading Virgil's first Georgic lost evening, the following tines struck me as so peculiarly applicable-to the present world- wide turmoil that I venture to think you may consider them worthy of being reproduced in your columns:-

" Quippe ubi fas versum atque metes, tot belle per orbem, Tam matte° acelerum facies: non ullus nratro Dignus hems squalent abductis arra colonist Et curves rigiduin falcon eonflantur in ensem.

Hine 'floret Euphrates, illinc Germania helium: Vieinae ruptis inter se legibus urbes Arma fertmt socrit Coto Mora impius orbe."—(Ll. 50G-12.) now that " world-earthquake," Waterloo, pales by comparison!