We publish elsewhere a poem by the author of Kitchener'
_Mob, the gallant young American who has not.only -helped to fight- our battles in Flanders, but has given us a -picture of the British soldier in which admiration rises to the height of passion. In the-courseof his poem, dedicated to " The Cricketers. of Flanders," he suggests that the grenadiers of the British Army should be commemorated by a statue in London, recording theheroie attitude of the bomb- thrower in bronze for all time. The bomb-thrower, we may remind our readers, hurls his bomb just -as- a bowler delivers an over-hand. -ball. This is an attitude in itself more beautiful even than that of the Discobolus, for the arm lifted high above' the head and close to it gives an heroic touch, a kind of muscular elation which is just wanting in the attitude made immortal by Myron. A well-made, well-developed man. never looks better than at the moment -when the ball is-leaving his hand.
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