ture. I met a man who had returned from the Continent itself
and I asked him where he had been and how he got his wound. He admitted
frankly that he didn't know; in fact, he said, he'd been back in England
for three weeks now and no one had ever let him know whether he had been
at the front or not. If they don't inform you as to your present or your
past, how can you expect to be informed as to your future? Thus I may at
this moment be marching forward to Belgium, or I may be merely moving to
another home station, or it may all be a test of my power and
organization and I may be making a wide circle which will bring me back
one fine morning to my original starting-place, Tiddilyumpton.

Drop it all, a soldier ought to be told whether he is going to war or
not. It would make it so much easier to know what attitude to adopt to
the schoolchildren who cheer him as he marches past.

Yours,

HENRY.

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Illustration: _The Victor_ (_after being admonished for un-scoutlike
behaviour_). "WELL, YOU MAY SAY WHAT YOU LIKE, SIR, BUT I CONSIDER IT
DISTINCTLY SUBVERSIVE OF DISCIPLINE FOR AN ORDINARY PRIVATE TO CALL HIS
PATROL-LEADER 'TOFFEE-NOSE.'"

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"In its issue of 22nd instant our estimable contemporary, 'La Patria
degli Italiani,' published a magnificent translation of the latest
poem of Rudyard Kipling: 'Rule Britannia.'"--_Buenos Aires
Standard._

Wait till you read ROBERT BRIDGES' new work, "God Save the King."

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WAR MEMENTOES.

A thoughtful and far-reaching suggestion toward the better regulation of
the currency has been made by a Mr. JAMES INNES C. ROGER. He writes to
the Press in the following terms:--"It has lately struck me that a
silver 10_s._ piece might be introduced during the war instead of (or in
addition to) the paper notes now current. Although these might be
objected to on the ground of size and weight, they would be interesting
as a memento of the great war, especially if the obverse side bore, say,
a representation of the British Fleet in action."

It seems to us that this would provide a delightful little game for the
Government, which probably has not much else to do at present, and we do
not see how the proposed coins could possibly be objected to on the
grounds mentioned above. On the contrary they would be most useful in a
variety of ways in which the six