22 SEPTEMBER 1917, Page 15

MR. -LANSING'S ADDRESS.

ITo ens EDITOR or THE n SeECsTOZ."1

Sts,—Permit me to express my warm appreciation of the service you have done in publishing in full the speech of Mr. Robert Lansing, the American Secretary of State, to the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at New York. I feel that a great deal of good would result from a wider distribution of this speech, and I would suggest and strongly urge that it be issued in pamphlet form. If you can see your way to put this idea into practice, I would willingly hear the cost of one hundred copies for distribu- tion amongst my friends.—I am, Sir, &c.,