6 JANUARY 1917, page 17

I T May Interest Your Readers Who Know Venice As A

city of splendid Art and pleasure, of lagoons and gondolas and man- dolins and magic moonlight—in Venice they don't hire the moon- light any more, it breeds aeroplanes—to hear......

Correspondence.

GERMANY'S PERIL.—I. FOOD TROUBLES. (To THE EDITOR OF TIER " SPECTATOR.") Sue,—Germany's food position is undoubtedly becoming extremely serious. Before the war Germany imported......