14 AUGUST 1915, page 15

F. D. Maurice On War.

[To TIIR EDITOR OF TUS "SPECTATOR."] Sia.,—The enclosed extract from a letter of F. D. Maurice to Kingsley (dated January 3rd, 1855) may seem to some of your readers apposite at......

The Voice Of An Englishwoman.

[To TIIE EDITOR OW THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—As a constant reader of the Spectator and a mother of soldiers may I try to tell you how much the sane, hopeful, and manly tone of your......

Pyrrhus And The Kaiser. [to Vie Editor Or Tun "

SPECTAT016."] Sia,—Parallels to the Kaiser have lately been drawn from ancient and modern sources. May I submit to you a fresh one, taken from Plutarch's Life of Pyrrhus? I give......

Compulsory Service.

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Every decent-minded man and woman in the country is getting sick of the eternal cry in every paper for con- scription, while the gods......

The Kaiser's Conscience And Wallenstein's.

[TO 21111 EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Stu,—The Kaiser has declared: "Before God and history I have a clear conscience. I did not will the war." How similarly, in Schiller's......

• The Anglq-russian Hospital.

[To Tar EDITOR OF TER " SPECTATOR."] SIE.,'"rAt this moment when Russia is bearing the chief burden of the Allied campaigns, many of us are anxious to give to the Russian people......