RECONSTITUTED FRIENDSHIP.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j SIR, —I do not think all your readers would agree that, after years of death, friendship in most cases could not be recon- stituted. If so, probably years of life would have had the same effect. One can test this occasionally by the visitations of former friends in dreams; the subconscious self rarely deceives us in this event : whether they are living or dead there are some with whom we are conscious that the link is broken, others with whom it is indestructible, and we begin again just where we left off when we last met. Some time ago a friend was lamenting the death many years earlier of one much loved in the past. I asked: " Would you have the beloved ones back if at the same time you were obliged to take back, as an equal element in life, those who have caused you only sorrow ? " The answer was almost terrible in its emphatic " No, indeed, I would not ! " It would be interesting to know how many would
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