10 OCTOBER 1914, page 14

Walter Bagehot On The Future Of Bismarck's Policy.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The following extract from the Economist of March 27th, 1875, may be of interest to your readers. In the article from which it is taken......

Prussian Atrocities.

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SFECTATOE."1 SIR,—Your correspondent Mr. Seymour-Ramadale in your last issue quotes a passage from one of Wellesley's letters, written in 1807, to prove......

Napoleon On The Science Of War.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SFECTATOR."1 SIR, —I have read with great pleasure the article "Strategy and History " in the Spectator of August 29th. It recalls the passage in the......

The French Levies In 1870 And Voluntary Service.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.n SIR, —You put your readers on their guard against drawing a false inference from Mr. Lloyd George's allusion at Cardiff to the levies raised......

The Biological Effect Of Voluntary Enlistment.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —It is a self-evident proposition that an army recruited by voluntary enlistment is, caeteris paribus, more efficient than one......