7 AUGUST 1869, page 14

The Tests At Oxford.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The Earl of Carnarvon fears that if teats be abolished in the Universities, there will be no security for the moral and religious......

St. Paul's Glass.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sra,—Allow me to call the attention of your correspondents to a passage in Plutarch (Mor. 781 F.), where the actual phrase ioiTrpoll occurs......

(to The Editor Of The "spectator.")

you allow me to state somewhat more explicitly than in my former letter the reasons which, it seems to me, should determine us, notwithstanding the lapis specularis theory......

[to The Editor Of The "spectator.")

find that a letter which appeared in your last number, signed "Helen T.," has been mistaken by many of my friends for mine, and this is not the first time that such signatures......

Faber's Speaking Machine.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sut,—Your correspondent at Munich seems to describe the Speak- ing Machine there altogether as a novelty, but it is about twenty years since......

[to The Editor Of The "spectator."]

SIR,—In your kind notice of my little book, the Perfect Man, you say it has its origin in Ecce Honw. It was written, all but a few pages at the end, in the summer of 1866, from......

[to The Editor Of The " Bpi:connor."]

SIR,—" E. D.'s " commentary on 1 Cor. xiii. 12 breaks down when brought to bear on 2 Cor. iii. 18, where St. Paul has evidently the same idea in his mind, though in the latter......