We have been asked, and we are glad to comply
with the request, to call attention to an appeal which has been issued on behalf of St. Edmund Hall at Oxford. St. Edmund Rail—
Teddy," as its undergraduate friends endearingly call it— which old Oxford men and others will remember as a singularly picturesque little academic building tucked away in Queen's Lane, a little off. the High Street, and overlooking the beauti- ful, tranquil old churchyard of St. Peter's-in-the-East, has also a very interesting history. It is older than all but the oldest Colleges. It is now the one surviving specimen of a Public Hall at Oxford, the others having been merged—New Inn Hall in Bellied, St. Mary's in Oriel, and St. Alban's in Merton. St. Edmund's was threatened with the same fate, but with the goodwill, it should be said, of Queen's College, and the aid of the University and the Chancellor himself, legislation has been carried through, preserving it as an inde- pendent Society. Poor itself in endowment, it caters largely for students of modest means, but, all the more, it requires pecuniary aid. Contributions should be sent to the Principal. St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford; or to the Union of London and Smiths Bank, High Street, Oxford,
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