“Among the working masses of England and Scotland,” Q. writes, “‘comradeship’ is well marked, though not (as in Italy) very conscious of itself.  Friends often kiss each other, though this habit seems to vary a good deal in different sections and coteries.  Men commonly sleep together, whether comrades or not, and so easily get familiar.  Occasionally, but not so very often, this relation delays for a time, or even indefinitely, actual marriage, and in some instances is highly passionate and romantic.  There is a good deal of grossness, no doubt, here and there in this direction among the masses; but there are no male prostitutes (that I am aware of) whose regular clients are manual workers.  This kind of prostitution in London is common enough, but I have only a slight personal knowledge of it.  Many youths are ‘kept’ handsomely in apartments by wealthy men, and they are, of course, not always inaccessible to others.  Many keep themselves in lodgings by this means, and others eke out scanty wages by the same device:  just like women, in fact.  Choirboys reinforce the ranks to a considerable extent, and private soldiers to a large extent.  Some of the barracks (notably Knightsbridge) are great centres.  On summer evenings Hyde Park and the neighborhood of Albert Gate is full of guardsmen and others plying a lively trade, and with little disguise, in uniform or out.  In these cases it sometimes only amounts to a chat on a retired seat or a drink at a bar; sometimes recourse is had to a room in some known lodging-house, or to one or two hotels which lend themselves to this kind of business.  In any case it means a covetable addition to Tommy Atkins’s pocket-money.”  And Mr. Raffalovich, speaking of London, remarks:  “The number of soldiers who prostitute themselves is greater than we are willing to believe.  It is no exaggeration to say that in certain regiments the presumption is in favor of the venality of the majority of the men.”  It is worth noting that there is a perfect understanding in this matter between soldiers and the police, who may always be relied upon by the former for assistance and advice.  I am indebted to my correspondent “Z” for the following notes:  “Soldiers are no less sought after in France than in England or in Germany, and special houses exist for military prostitution both in Paris and the garrison-towns.  Many facts known about the French army go to prove that these habits have been contracted in Algeria, and have spread to a formidable extent through whole regiments.  The facts related by Ulrichs about the French foreign legion, on the testimony of a credible witness who had been a pathic in his regiment, deserve attention (Ara Spei, p. 20; Memnon, p. 27).  This man, who was a German, told Ulrichs that the Spanish, French, and Italian soldiers were the lovers, the Swiss and German their beloved (see also General Brossier’s Report, quoted by Burton, Arabian Nights, vol. x, p. 251).  In Lucien Descaves’s military