Compulsory Military Education In Australia.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Four years ago last spring British statesmen of all parties called public attention to the gravity of the Imperial Defence problem. The......

Driver Caudle.

[To nu EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Lord Montagu, in the course of his letter which appears in your issue of November 1st, refers to a matter of very considerable interest,......

Mr. Labouchere As A Wit.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR.,-" Whatever else he was or was not, everybody admits that he was the greatest English wit since Sheridan." Thus Mr. Algar Thorold writes......

The Russian Pilgrims.

[To THE EDITOR Ol THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-So far from Mr. Stephen Graham's assertion being correct, viz., that "the journey of the Russian peasants to Jerusalem has never been......

The Jesuits. "

[To THE EDITOR OF THE. " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Your reviewer says in last week's issue, "Whatever defence can be made of the Jesuits, their great and irrefutable condemnation is......

The Queen And A King Consort.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Surely you are wrong in attributing the advice given to Queen Victoria, when she wished to alter the title of her husband. The Queen did......

Plagiarism Or Coincidence?

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-In Lord Tennyson's memoir of his father (vol. H., p. 222) the following passage occurs. Ruskin on one occasion had been lunching with......