22 AUGUST 1914, page 15

A Striking Analogy.

[To THE EDITOR OF TEl "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The news of the offer by Austria to Italy of Savoy, Nice, Corsica, and Tunis reached us when we were staying in Dorset. According to......

An Italian Proverb.

" Con tutto it mcndo guerra, Ma pace con Inghilterra " ?......

Dante On The Kaiser. [to The Editor Op The “brecr.roa."]

Purg. xiv. 63 :— " Mold di vita, e se di pregio priva."......

Economizing.

[To THE EDITOR 05 7HZ -Srtcreroa."1 SIR,—Your comments on the letters of your correspondents are almost invariably as valuable as the letters. Perhaps, then, you will allow me......

Luxuries And Charity.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] you give your readers your views as to whether it is desirable or undesirable that the richer classes should cut down their expenditure on......

The Prussian Officers At Skagen: An Episode Of 1864.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Had things turned out in Belgium as the Germans hoped—viz., an occupation of the country, Antwerp and the Belgian sea coast included,......

"sentiments Proper To The Present Crisis."

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."] • append two extracts from Robert Hall's sermon, " The Sentiments Proper to the Present Crisis," preached at Bristol on a general fast-day......

As In 1870.

[To TH1 EDITOR Or THZ " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—I notice from the news that reaches us as to the fighting in Alsace and Lorraine that Germany once more pursues her system of......