14 OCTOBER 1905, page 17

[to The Editor Of The "spectator." . 1

have read out here with much interest Mr. Abbott's articles, "How it Strikes an Australian," and your own comments and some correspondence upon " Vidi's " letter in the Times......

By The War Office In The Adoption Of A Scheme

of sanitation embracing the conditions I have laid down as "essentials" to secure success to the soldier in his endeavour to keep in the fighting-line, and to avoid the disgrace......

[to The Editor Of The "spectator."]

Sin,—An interesting account of this old saying may be found in Georg Bfichmann's " Gefliigelte Worte " (ed. 1905), p. 677. The saying appears in many varied forms as a proverb......