12 AUGUST 1905, page 13

Lord Roberts And The State Of The Army.

Sra,—Your article in last week's issue admits very truly that the real difficulty in providing a force for home defence, and for the expansion of the Regular Army in times of......

How It Strikes An Australian.* I.—the New Old Land.

IT was raining when we came to Plymouth,—a thin, cold, • comfortless rain, which enveloped land and sea in a wet mist. Sometimes the chill breezes lifted the curtain hanging......

The Volunteers And Parties.

LETTERS TO THE E DITOR. [To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR, — For the first time I am not in accord with my gallant friend General Sir Alfred Turner. He has done the......