22 JANUARY 1898, page 17

The Tilford Oak.

[To Yu EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:] propos of the Tilford Oak. No one has thought it worth while to give the actual words in which it is mentioned in the charter of Henry de Blois,......

Poetry.

BACK TO IRELAND. On, tell me will I ever get to Ireland again, Achray—from the far North West P Have we given all the rainbows an' green woods an' rain For the suns an' the......

The St. Asaph Memorial

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Yon were right and "X. X. X." wrong. The memo- rialists are entirely to blame for making their agitation public. The fault was theirs,......

The Sense Of Direction.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " BrEcrkros."] SIR,—Like Mr. Winter's horse in Manitoba, mine has repeatedly brought me home safely when I had utterly lost myself in the dense fog upon......

Rachray Island.

Oca, what was it got me at all that time To promise I'd marry a Rachray man? An' now he'll not listen to rason or rhyme, He strivin' to hurry me all that he can. "Come on, an'......

Books.

GARDINER'S "HISTORY OF THE COMMON- WEALTH." Mn. GARDINER belongs to that brilliant group of historians who were the pride of English literature in the " sixties " and......