25 MARCH 1916, Page 13

A BOOK OF WISDOM. [To THE EDITOR ow THE "

SPECTATOR."' SIRS I have received certain letters asking whether the writer of the diary in my article, " A Book of Wisdom," was killed ? I think I had better confess openly that the individual in question was, like the Englishman who philosophized, fictitious.—I am, Sir, &c.,

A STUDENT IN ABMS.