LORD KITCHENER'S LETTER.
(To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIH,—Have you room for a plea in connexion with the Kitchener Memorial ? Has anything happened in this war more wonderful than the personal "Letter to the Troops " ? "Brigade Orders," " Army Orders," we have had before—noble and inspiring fnough: but this letter—" a brief, soldierlike statement of the standard of conduct which England expects of her fighting men," as "Jamie the Yank" describes it—a copy of which was given to every man before he crossed the water—surely it is unique. Will any one ever be able to tell us to how great a degree it inspired tho morals—and therefore assuredly the moral—of our men? I would it were still being given to every man who sets foot in France! Ought it not to be engraved on solid gold as part of any memorial erected to that devout man who was so great a soldier?—I am,
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