24 MARCH 1917, Page 13

" A STUDENT IN ARMS."

(To THE EDITOR OP rsa " SPECTATOR.")

" Z.," the writer of the letter in your issue of December 16th, be good enough to unveil himself, either directly • or through your columns? His "Harry Smith" sounds familiar to one who knew Donald in his Bermondsey days, and learned from that friendship some ways in which to satisfy the " Divine necessity of loving," while one was closely connected with another slum club in Bermondsey. Those who worked on the same piece of social work have lost his immediate personal inspiration; but to them, no less than to the " boys" who reverenced him, his memory and his present being are a lodestar still. One would like to thank " Z." and " Harry Smith," and to know more. Can you help by publishing this?-1 am, Sir, tic.,

LEONARD W. LEECH.

Land Office, Nairobi, British East Africa, February 7th.