... rlWEN G EA.ND-NOW!(-| A CHRISTMAS LETTER FROM BLANCHE London, November 22, 1 9 1*5 Dear Cousin CHRISTMAS is coming. Cheery Ho! Likewise Wouff Wouff And are we downhearted Well, nothing like we were, anyhow. Con fession's good for the soul, though, so I don't mind 1 telling you that as sure as eggs is eggs, and just out of: pure cussedness, no doubt, always as the festive season rolls along ...

... A FEW DAYS AGO A Random Chronicle. By V. V. V. I wish the inadequate term, Huns, had never been applied to our blackguard foe. The Huns belonged to the dark ages and are no more. The Germans are not Huns-- they are Germans. In the search for a fitting word for an enemy capable of the callous and monstrous methods of aggression now in force, from well-poisoning and gas suffoca tion to the ...

... Being the Correspondence of the Hon. Evelyn Fitzhenry with her friend, the Lady Betty Berkshire. 200, C'urzon Street, Mayfair. J II JI Y DEAR BETTY, We stand on the edge of great I 1 events, so they all tell me. Also, it seems, that as I V 1 far as the war goes, we're just about where we were last September, for all the P.M.'s telling us at New castle that everything's quite all right in the ...

... [J]N£NGLAND-N5MI London, October 18, 1915. Dear Cousin THERE'S a lot of emptying the baby out with the bath water going on. And sometimes I wonder, as greater philosophers have wondered already, is it wise I mean, all this strafing of everyone in high places, one after the other, about this muddle in the Balkans, and other things Punish the culprits when you can, of course, but don't sack the ...

... '-SojMi^he^M^Qndens, BY A BYSTANDER ON ACTIVE SERVICE My Dear Bystander DON'T really know why it is, but every one cherishes a certain awe, and even admiration, for detectives, just as everybody hates house-agents and loves sailors. It seems as natural as it is to avoid taking out a dog licence until cautioned by the local policeman. The scalding tears, and in a voice vibrating with old ...

... Someiohere in Zanders BY A BYSTANDER ON ACTIVE SERVICE My Dear Bystander-- I ALWAYS think that the endeavours of a motor- lorry driver on a narrow greasy by-road behind the firing line, to manoeuvre successfully past a convoy coming from the opposite direction, afford a peculiarly fascinating study in conflicting human emotions. The two parties approach each other with the utmost suspicion, ...

... Somewhere in Flanders A WEEKLY LETTER FROM AN OFFICER AT THE FRONT-- I, Dear Bystander THIS evening I find that my mind is running on spies and their surreptitious ways. For nearly the whole of the day I have been engaged on investigation work of an arduous order. I do sincerely hope that nowadays in England disciples ■of espionage are meeting with their proper deserts, and are not merely ...

... By Bascule. A correspondent writes as follows Dear mich obliged if you could let me know what card I should lead, and why. in the following circumstances B. y 1 (Dealer). A(Self). Z calls one no-trump. A and Y pass. My Partner. B, goes two hearts. Z declares two no-trumps, which call is left in. I have king and three small hearts, with no special lead of own' Yours truly, M. W. 1'. This ...

... THE BEE IN THE BONNET AN AWTO.CADSEREE. TS>y Greirsddl Bass, MY DEAR TATLER, I have not told you before what an acute state of crisis and internal dissent the automobile world is in at the moment and has been for some weeks as I have been awaiting developments, and at the time of writing things are still in the air. Moreover, it was in many ways a trade matter and out side your personal ...

... ^Son\eh)heiWMiP7&nder^ V A WEEKLY LETTER FROM AN y1. N- OFFICER AT THE FRONT-- XVI. My Dear Bystander IF there is one class of world-worker above another who in normal times of peace is deserving of human sympathy it is surely the grey-bearded station-master ■engaged in the unenviable occupation of coping with holiday traffic at any busy London terminus in summer weather. But when there is ...

... Somewhere in Flanders I I A WEEKLY LETTER FROM AN OFFICER AT THE FRONT-- IL b yJ'r- J My Pear Bystander A T the moment of writing comparative calm reigns along the entire front. Nothing in the nature of an attack has taken place anywhere along my beat, which covers quite a considerable area, though, of course, there is always intermittent shooting going on all the time, and the amount of ...

... To the Editor Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.'' Dear Sir, Doubtless other peopla have written to you on this subject, but if not, I should like to point out a curious coincidence. In your issue of May 15th you pub lished, from a sketch by a Naval officer, a picture of the action off the mouth of the Thames, in which two German torpedo-boats were sunk, and printed under the centre ...