MR. GEORGE MEREDITH AS PROPHET. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE
"SPECTATOILl SIR,—In view of the War Commission Report, the enclosed passage may have a special interest for your readers.—I am, "If it weren't for a cursed feeble Government scraping congis to the taxpayer—well, so many of our good fellows would not have to fall. That I say ; for this thing is going to happen some day, mind you, Sir And I don't want to have puncheons and hogs- heads of our English blood poured out merely to water the soil of a conquered country because English Governments are a craven lot, not daring risk of office by offending the taxpayer."—(Lord Ormont in "Lord Ormont and his Aminta," c. 9.) "Lord Ormont proposed vigilance and drill; a small degree of self-sacrifice on the part of the population, and a look-out head in the War Department."—(Ibid., c. 8.)
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