26 DECEMBER 1914, Page 15

A PROPHECY WHICH IS COMING TRUE. [To TEE EDITOR OE

TER "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Looking over a book of old cuttings the other day, I came across the enclosed "lines," which appeared in the Spectator shortly after the Franco-German War. Their apt- ness at this time will be readily apparent when the prophecy of the last two lines in the last verse appears to be on the eve