HERALDRY AND THE WAR.
[To THE EDITOR or roe SPECTAT01,"3 Sia,—Many a parent is probably considering how best to com- memorate a son's participation in the war. Perhaps it might be permitted to suggest that there could be no more approprial• manner than by heraldry. The very origin of heraldry was in arms, and the Crusades gave great impetus to it, and incidentally added greatly to its interest. This war was no ordinary war, but was a righteous war for right and freedom—a veritable crusade. All men who fought to it are to be envied, and have legitimate ground for pride, and their memory should be kept green, and their tradition should live. So far as this can be done, heraldry ran do it, and in doing it will come into its own again, which is the realm of arms. Many a family and many a young MD might well feel proud to have this new crusade appropriately recorded in arms, which would thus carry down to posterity a new tradition of chivalry and proper pride. It is suggested that those-who have actually fought should alone be granted certain distinctions. How far those who have fallen could ha thus commemorated, especially in those sad cases where all line sons have Wien, is another question. The College of Arin, needless to say, are the proper and only authority to deal wit the whole question, and they alone can grunt lawful arm.,
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