5 SEPTEMBER 1914, page 11

Distraction.

VER since the world began great trouble has been sur- rounded by ceremonial. From age to age the cere- monial changes. It tends to become a bondage or a hypocrisy, and bold......

Letters To The Editor.

WALTER SCOTT ON THE SITUATION. LTO TIM EDITOR OP THZ " BPECTAT014"1 SIR, - / have come across a passage in one of Sir Walter Scott's letters which seems singularly appropriate......

A City At War.

T ONDON changes day by day, and the London of the first few days of the war lies far in the past, distant for all of us by differently measured aeons of time. The trainloads of......