[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.")
Sin,—I am fully in accord with Earl Cowper's sensible letter in your issue of May 19th, and with your remark thereon that Volunteer corps are more useful to the nation than rifle clubs. But if it is a fact that many are willing to practise rifle-shooting because it is amusing, who will not practise drill because it is irksome, and it is thought better for national defence to secure a larger number of men than we have at present who are acquainted at all events with the use of the rifle, a sort of compromise might perhaps be effected. It might be made a condition of granting the necessary sanction to form any rifle club that its members should undertake to join either the Regular or Auxiliary Forces (if not disqualified for such service) in case of "imminent national danger or great
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