2 SEPTEMBER 1916, Page 15

GERMAN WAR MEDALS.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THY -Sesersvoit.1

Sra,—In The Correspondence of Cray, Walpole, West, and Ashton (1734- 1771), edited by Mr. Paget Toynbee and published last year by the Clarendon Press, Walpole, writing to West from Florence, July 31st, 1740 (N.S.), describing some coins and medals that ho is sending to him, says (Letter 125, Vol. I., p. 325) : " The last, and almost the only one I ever saw with a text well applied, is a German medal with a rebellious town besieged and blocked up ; the inscription, This kind is not expelled but by fa.sting.' "—I am, Sir, &c., C. S. HARRIS.