27 APRIL 1912, Page 31

[TO TR2 EDITOR OF TIC " SPROTATOR."]

Stn,—After reading of the 'Titanic' episode, we need not despair of the future of our race.

"Di patrii, quorum sempor sub numine Troja eat, Non tamen otnnino Toucros delere paratis, Cum tales animos invent= et tam carts tulistis Pectora."—Akeid, ix. 247-50. (" Ye gods of my country, under whose divine protection Troy always is, you do not intend utterly to destroy the Trojans, since

you have produced such souls and such resolute hearts in our youths.")

—I am, Sir, &e., Z.