OUR LETTER BOX

Observer, Volume XXXVI, Issue 49, 12 August 1916, Page 24

OUR LETTER BOX

C.L.R.—Poor stuff—'but your own! "Dbntioe.—-Would be gratified to hear from you oftener. C.B.—There is no food for jocularity in the circumstances you name. X.L.D.— Charmingly written — by the author from whom you stole it, Trt.P.T.—Beg, borrow or buy a typewriter; or, better still, don't write at all. Kauri.—The cartoon and verses "Carry on!" were -published in the "Manchester Sunday Chronicle." H C—The only reason that prevents us awarding you a purse of sovereigns is that sovereigns are not available. P J.E.—Ne time for cryptograms. Our cryptogiammatist is in France. If you go there he II solve it for you. B G.—No! No! There is no New Zealand market for poetry. Anybody will prkit it. but none will pay for it. Try Mars. g p O.—There i« nothing to be added to the simple story. It was merely unadorned truth, however much it may have hurt you. H S A.—"Thomas Atkins" was the sample name suggested by the Duke of Wellington in a certain form, and has been retained f-s a general title for all British soldiers since.