LORD SALISBURY ON THE DUTY OF ENGLISHMEN.
[To MR EDITOR 07 TER "SPECTATOR.") SIR, —I do not think that the following lines have been quoted anywhere ; they are mentioned in Professor Crumb's Germany
and England, and are an adaptation by the late Lord Salisbury of the exhortation addressed by Demosthenes to Athens, in that city's darkest hour :—
" Yet is there time, 0 English, yet is there time! Rouse your- selves from your lethargy ! Cease to hire your armies ! Go yourselves, every man of you, and stand in the ranks—as English- men should ! And thus, dying, you shall die greatly, or, victorious, yours shall be such a victory as nothing in England's past can exceed or rival ! "
I venture to think that were these stirring words posted up at recruiting meetings, they might prove to be a stimulus to
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