4 MAY 1918, Page 12

THE TRUE NAVAL SPIRIT.

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "Sszersroa."] Sia,—In your " leader " in last Saturday's Spectator on" The True Naval Spirit " you say : " It required what the Duke of Welling- ton used to call ' four-o'clock-in the-morning courage.'" Was it not his great opponent, Napoleon, who defined this quality, so ably spoken of in your admirable article, as " tiro-o'clock-in- the-morning courage," which he (Bonaparte) claimed to have in a supreme sense ?—I am, Sir, &e., T. 111cCAurn. HaccIdene, 22 Palmerston Road, Wesicliff.