29 AUGUST 1914, Page 17

[To THE EDITOR OF TEl "SPECTATOR.")

SIR,—The other day in this little Norfolk village, as a relation of a young fellow had been trying to persuade him not to enlist for the war, be put the matter to his mother, eho said : "My boy, I don't want you to go, but if I were you I should go." Let us pray that this fine spirit may be