21 OCTOBER 1916, Page 10

KINGSLEY ON THE IRISH SOLDIER. (To THE EDITOR OF THE

"SPICTATOB."1 Sia,—The enclosed quotation from Westward Ho! is worth recall- ing d propos of the present situation in Ireland, I think.—I am, " The Irishman, when he is brought as a soldier under the regenerative influence of law, discipline, self-respect, and loyalty, can prove himself a worthy rival of the more stern Norse-Saxon warrior. God grant that the military brotherhood between Irish and English, which is the special glory of the present [Crimean] war, may be the germ of a brotherhood industrial, political, and hereafter perhaps religious also; and that not merely the corpses of heroes, but the feuds and wrongs which have parted them for centuries, may lie buried, once and for ever, in the noble graves of Alma and of Inkerman."--Casaies KINGSLEY, Note appended to chap. T. of Westward Hot