5 JANUARY 1907, page 20

Tusks And Horns.

T HE French have a good word for the tusks of an animal, as of an elephant or boar : defenses. It is almost certainly in the original, not the derivative, sense that the term......

Correspondence.

THE STATE OF THE NAVY. PLEA FOR INQUIRY. [To las EDITOR or TER ••SrecivTolt.") SIR, — In the first letter of this series the need for inquiry into recent naval administration......