4 AUGUST 1917, Page 11

(To ens Emma or rim "Sercrieoz."1 Zero" writes a plausible

letter, but it strikes an outsider very curiously that a man "very fond of experimenting, full of enthusiasm and invention" (modest man!) can abandon such gifts from on high and settle down to "leisurely inactivity" because the country, not himself, will reap the benefit of his talents. He cannot even find time to do some kind of patriotic work. One wonders if he is too qld to devote his superabundant