by Violet Markham , c.H.
Miss Markham reflects on some d fferences and similarities between the two Elizabethan Ages. She firmly believes in a recovery of greatness in -the spiritual sense. She soys: ' Let us have done with unworthy muxmurs that we, with our great past and great traditions, are now a second-class power because we have fewer ships and soldiers than our neighbours to east and west. A nation that had the enterprise during the las.t war to ca.rry through a fantastic scheme like Mulberry; to manufacture a prefabricated harbour, to tow it across the Channel, to anchor it on an enemy coast and land troops from it, has reserve powers of will and imagination as great as any shown in the sixteenth century.'