19 DECEMBER 1914, page 14

Must Conscription Come ?

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—The catalogue of excuses for non-recruiting which you publish in your last issue from a Glasgow correspondent tells a humiliating tale,......

Voluntary Recruiting. [to Tes Editor Ct Ths "spectator. " ]

SIR,—Our system of voluntary recruiting has its merits and defects. One of the defects is that it is perhaps difficult for our allies to understand how admirable an effort has......

Professional Football In War Time. [to The Editor Of The

" SPECTITOII." - ] SIR,-if public opinion has up to the present unfortunately failed to stop League football, surely it will insist on the abandonment of the Cup Competition,......

The Man For The Trenches.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SFECTATOR."] SIR,—The following paragraph from one of Richard Jefferies ' s most observant and interesting books, Hodge and his Masters, might with......

The Censorship.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE srsoraroa."3 SIR, —Your arguments re the Censorship, the Press, and the public, stated in your note on p. 842 of your last number, seem to me to ignore (I)......

Scholarships And Volitnt Firming For The Army.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTATOR."1 SIR,—I should like to draw your attention to the case of boys who have lately obtained scholarships at one of the Univer- sities. I know a......