THE INNS OF COURT RESERVE CORPS. cro war EI0708 or
Tar .Breorkrom."] Sin,—The author of the delightful article on "Easter with a Volunteer Corps" in your last [SUM showed a discretion worthy of the Censorship. He might have been writing about the — Army from somewhere in —, so silent was he in regard to the names of people and places. But we of the Inns of Court Reserve were easily clever enough to recognize his scene as Arundel and his corps as our corps. I would even go so far as to assign with confidence the authorship of this holiday sketch to an old friend and distinguished war.. correspondent who does me the honour to serve in my own platoon. Along with my fellow-members of the LC.R.O., I can heartily endemic' his appreciation of the serious ardour which we brought to our " exercises " ; of the sense of youth revived which came with a renewal of discipline ; of our return to those joys of convivium et sodalitas which are the particular reward of men who share the spirit of • game that is something more than a game.
Other holidays will, I hope, find us in other camps. Mean- while the War Office is asking us what we are prepared to do in the way of patrol and guard duties with a view to releasing men of fighting age for foreign service. This practical use to which we veterans can be put, with due allowance for the limited leisure of busy men, is not, I think, fully understood. The popular idea that we are just "playing at soldiers" needs further correction. Force of numbers and keenness for duty will soon compel a recognition that has already been half won in face of much apathy and discouragement. University and Public School men, and others who can bring a satisfactory introduction, would find a cordial welcome and the most congenial comradeship in our ranks. They would enjoy, too, in the Inns of Court Reserve a certain measure of old tradition, not shared—I say it without disparagement of others—by most Volunteer Corps. I have the authority of ray company commander to make appeal in your pagea, where the cause of the Volunteers has received such enthusiastic support, to the type of candidate that we need. Applications should be made to Mr. G. Nugent Bankes, Inns of Court Mesa, Paper Buildings, Temple, E.0.—I am, Sir, &a,
OWEN SEAMAN,
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