27 APRIL 1912, page 31

[to Tr2 Editor Of Tic " Sprotator."]

Stn,—After reading of the 'Titanic' episode, we need not despair of the future of our race. "Di patrii, quorum sempor sub numine Troja eat, Non tamen otnnino Toucros delere......

What Every German Wants To Know.

[To TUE EDITOR OF Till " SPECTATOR:1 SIE,^4 hope you will not deem it an impertinence if I venture to ask a question which imagination suggests as being a very natural one on......

The Candidature Of Unionist Working Men For Parliament.

tTo TIM EID1TOB OP TEM " SIMOTAT014.1 SIn,—A movement existed at the last election to promote the candidature of Unionist working men for Parliament. As secretary of this......

The Loss Of The Titanic.'

[TO TIIR EDITOR Or The "SFROTATOR." SIR,—The following quotation from De Quincey's "Opium Eater" needs no comment :— " Then came sudden alarms ; hurryings to and fro ;......

[to Tile Editor Of Thii "5prctat02.1 Siu,—your...

of a poem on shipwreck by an iceberg moves me to recall an apposite instance of the extra- ordinary prescience of Mr. Rudyard Kipling's poetic imagina- tion. In "The English......

The German Navy Law.

[To T111 EDITOR Or TIEN "SPECTA.T0161 Sr,—In your reference to the amended law in the Spectator of April 20th you say "One battleship to be added to the 1913 and one to the 1914......

Life-saving Equipment At Sea.

[To sin EDITOR or MR " SPROTITOR." J Stu,—In your admirable article of last week upon the loss of the Titanic; ' attention was naturally called to the lesson taught by the......

Consort Ships. [to Trd Editor. Or Tun " Sprotator:] You

allow me to draw attention to a very simple expedient by which the safety of the travelling public on the high sea can be better secured than by any number of additional......