Hebron.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—May I ask bow the age of terebinths affects the question of Abraham's oak (Spectator, April 26th) ? The present tree is an oak. Jerome......

Schools And Rates.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." J SIR,—Why should the writer of the article on "Schools and Rates" in your issue of May 10th assume that if two-thirds of the managing......

Bret Harte's Poem, " St. Thomas."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The holocaust in the Antilles and Bret Harte's death last week will, I think, bring strikingly to the memories of some of us his short......

[to The Editor Of The " Spectator.") Sir,—your...

H. S. G.," in the Spectator of May 10th, says that "it would be interesting to know whether the former managers " of British schools who transferred them to School Boards......

(to The Editor Of The "sescraroa.1

SIR,—With reference to H. S. G.'s" letter in last week's Spectator, when a British school is taken over by a School Board the former management ceases absolutely, and the school......

The Education Bill.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SID.,—The lead which Mr. H. Lee-Warner desires to see given (Spectator, May 10th) has already been given by a large part of the members of......

The Legend Of Waterloo.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The Duke of Wellington was probably correct in think- ing that his seasoned army of the Peninsula could have easily beaten the massed......