22 AUGUST 1914, Page 15

A STRIKING ANALOGY.

[To THE EDITOR OF TEl "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The news of the offer by Austria to Italy of Savoy, Nice, Corsica, and Tunis reached us when we were staying in Dorset. According to custom, I interchanged news with our milkman—a bronze-faced, white-smocked countryman. His comment was admirable. " That's just what the enemy of our souls promised to the King of Kings, and it wasn't his to give." He heartily agreed with me that "the result was