We have dealt elsewhere with some of the wider aspects
of the action at the Dardanelles, but cannot refrain here from a word on the picturesque side of the subject. It may well be that in a very short time we shall hear of naval landing parties on both the European and Asiatic sides of the Straits. Imagine British Marines crossing the bed of the Maeander and their officer instructing them to "keep the Fountain of Achilles " on their left front, or telling them to proceed to a point on the map just north-east of " A" in Patroclus. An old-fashioned schoolmaster might draw from these premisses the deduction that a classical education is, after all, essential Consider, Sir, what an incomparable advantage it would be to a man to be well grounded in Homer if he were told to occupy Kum Kaleh or to conduct are connaissance at Toni- Bbehr."
