21 APRIL 1917, page 9

War A-nd Letters. T He War, Besides ;11;111'1,1g New...

testing the old, not only as an incentive to valour and to endurance, but as a sedative, an anodyne, and a distraction. The greatest writers stand the test triumphantly.......

The Sacrifice Of Young Lives.

S OME days ago in a shell-torn schoolroom I came across a paper copy of Cicero's De Senectute, and have been reading it again. There was something grimly ironical in that......