12 OCTOBER 1912, Page 15

[To as EDITOR OF TIM "SPECTATOR.]

SIB,—Writing as an observer, and not as a partisan, I should advise your correspondent of October 5th to exhibit his faculty for merriment within the precincts of his Club in Piccadilly, rather than in the vicinity of Donegal]. Square. I am ac- quainted with both localities, and know which contains the more strenuous environment. I also know which would be the safer for any merry gentleman when unconventional persons are in deadly earnest.—I am, Sir, &c.,

AN IRISH SOLDIER..