We have always felt that the great thing was to
increase the numbers of the Reserve, and to make it so big that no one would dare to neglect it. Though perhaps we should leave well alone in the matter of prophecy, we feel still constrained to say that we think we are fast reaching the point where the military authorities will be forced to give ampler recognition and greater pecuniary help to the National Reserve. We may add, however, as a caution that pecuniary recognition is bound to come in instalments. Public Departments love to take two or even three bites at a cherry. We may add that the writer in the Morning Post recalls the very important fact that of the men at the great London Parade sixty-one per cent. were ex- Regulars, fifty-six per cent. under forty-five, and only sixteen per cent. over fifty-fire years of age.
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