16 DECEMBER 1916, Page 10

PEACE WITHOUT HONOUR.

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") 8m,—I wonder James Russell Lowell's stanza on a " Peace without Honour," which is what a premature peace would be, has not been alluded to in the Spectator. May I quote from memory?-

" Better that all onr ships with all their crews Should sink to sleep in ocean's dreamless ooze, Each torn flag waving challenge as it went And each dumb gun a brave man's monument, Than seek such peace as only cowards crave; Give me the peace of dead men or of brave."