29 JULY 1916, Page 13

WAR MEDALS.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.,

SIR—It may interest your readers to know that plaster oasts of thirteen of the German war medals acquired by the British Museum are now on view in the East Court of the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington. Reproductions of the Lueitania ' medal and others mentioned by your contributor are included. I would also mention here that a particularly fine design in bronze for a medal in honour of the victors in the first Balkan War (1912-1913) was included in the Mestrovio Exhibition at South Kensington last year, the reverse, " Kosovo Avenged, 10124913," being illustrated on Plate 8 of the