[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—I gather with regret from Dr. Rendall's letter that the camp at Tidworth for public schools in the Southern Com- mand—and for Eton and Harrow—was to be open also to old boys between seventeen and thirty. Are not these the very men Kitchener wants? Would not each one of them bring in others (we are a deferential nation, as Bagehot said) by his example ? Of course the public schools camp is pleasanter —is it more useful? Are we to say of this development of the public-school spirit—falsely here, I think, so called—as Robin Hood said of his broken bow, " Our bane thou art, our boot when thou should'st be." The freedom of Europe, the existence of the Empire are at stake. Is it a time for soft billets, or billets that non-public-school men are likely to think soft, or for pressing social distinctions P—I am, Sir, (kg
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