2 NOVEMBER 1918, Page 13

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I can supply

you with another Limerick current in Oxford some years ago, authorship attributed, I believe, to Ronald Knox : " There was a young man who said, God Must think it exceedingly odd That that sycamore tree Continues to be When there's no one about in the qnad "- a delightful dig at the idealists.—I am, Sir, &c., H.