Oh soldier, soldier

HERE’S how’ to Charles Harris’s article on toy soldiers (December 8, 2021)! He concludes with a lament that the age of brightly painted lead toys has passed— perhaps, but is that the point? The wise G. K. Chesterton (a lifelong toy-soldier collector) wrote: ‘Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery. He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.’

Charlie Merwin, Pennsylvania, US