5 JANUARY 1918, page 21

[to The Editor Or Ran " Spectator."]

SIR,—The writer of the racy article on " Common Incapacities " tells something of the evils of procrastination, or unpunctuality. There is an opposite evil—from which I......

Deafness.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") notice in the Spectator of December 22nd a letter by Miss Constance Miles in which she contradicts a statement by one of your correspondents......

Lieutenant Joseph Lee.

[To nut Enrroa or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—In a paragraph in the Spectator of last week you make a very kindly allusion to Lieutenant Joseph Lee, the author of Ballads of Battle......

Common Incapacities.

[To THE ED/TOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Are not many so-called incapacities and detects really due to mere carelessness? This, I think, is true of unpunctuality, and of the......

A Strange Coincidence.

[To ma Enrroa or THE " Sperm"] &H,—Permit me to call attention to the following passage in that fascinating book of Colonel Meadows Taylor, The Story of My Life:— "My assistant......

A Correction.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In a letter by me that appeared in the Spectator of December 22nd, either from my careless writing or by a printer's error, I am made......

New Official Appointments.

[To THE EDrroa OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It was notorious before the war began that the King's Bench Division of the Irish High Court of Justice was overmanned. The High Court......

Public Schools And The Navy.

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sna—Would you allow a "mere naval officer" a word in support of the much-abused Public School system of education? Com- menced in 1913, the......

A Dante Crux.

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The letter of your correspondent on the opening line of Canto VII. of the Inferno recalls to me a discussion I had in Malta on this......

Mr. Lansing's Address To Officers.

Ws are very glad to be able to inform our readers that we have received permission to reprint the noble Address by Mr. Lansing which was published in the Spectator of September......