THE " SWEETNESS " OF ENGLISHMEN.
• [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Si,—In the Spectator of May 4th,which has just come to me from a friend, is an article entitled "The 'Sweetness' of English- men" (as you say, a pleasant and rather novel view to take of Dur countrymen), and though the date is distant, I wish to send you a pretty story in confirmation of your remarks on " sweetness " in the police. I saw a constable, "off duty," standing on the kerb in conversation with another man, when a cripple passed, so bent that body and legs were actually at right angles. The cripple went slowly on without pause, or taking any apparent heed of the crossing he had to traverse, and the policeman, seeing this, turned briskly, held up his hand to an approaching hansom, " shadowed " the entirely unconscious cripple across the road to safety, and then came back to his talk with his friend. It was to me a pretty and a pleasant sight, and typical, I think, 9f the kindly care you speak of,—a care and attention which is "not in the bond."—.
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