23 OCTOBER 1915, page 16

Books.

THE SUICIDE OF THE TURK.* SOME hundred and fifty years ago, Horace Walpole thought that the Turk was politically moribund. In 1797, Napoleon wrote to the Directory that "the......

The Central Association Of Volunteer Training Corps.

Pansinsmr ; LORD DESDOROUGH. Hole, SECRETARY: PERCY A. HARRIS, Esq. HEAR °molest Judges' Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice (Carey Street entrance). The aims and objects of......

Notice.—when "correspondence" Or Articles Are Signed With...

or iltifials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of......

Poetry.

EDITH CAVELL. [An English nurse charged with harbouring fugitive English and Trench soldiers, and executed by order of the German authorities in Brussels.] WHAT shall we say of......

The Laura Strickland Scheme For Helping The Blind.

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR, — I sincerely appreciate your kindness in allowing me to lay before your readers a brief explanation of the above, which was launched by......

"woken."

fib TEE EDITOR OP TEl "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—If I took in the Spectator for no other reason, the delightful article in your issue of October 9th on " Flowers in Flanders" would be......

London And South-western Railway Servants' Orphanage, [to...

THE " srzci , ATou."1 Sia,—May I be allowed to appeal to your readers on behalf of - what is essentially and pro-eminently "a war charity "—the L. and S. W. Railway Servants'......