The Christmas number of Khaki (1s.) contains many good things.
Mr. Graham Horton-Smith, one of the founders of the Imperial Maritime League, in " The Refiner's Fire " deals with some correspondence he has had with a pacificist, and states that " this country—not alone, perhaps, of the Allies, but this country certainly—courted by its neglect the coming of this war, and this country, and unhappily, also its Empire, are passing through the Divine Refiner's Fire in consequence." To this nation, he claims, has been given the task of destroying German militarism and establishing a world-peace. Other interesting articles are " King Alfred the Great," by Miss E. M. Tenison, and " With the Troops to Baghdad," by Mr. Harold Shepstone. Mr. Algernon Blackwood contributes a short story, and among the verse we may note Mr. Horton-Smith's " The Passing Year," and a charming little poem, "A Kiss from the King's Hand," by S. M. Robertson.
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