7 DECEMBER 1907, page 31

Poetry.

THE SHIP OF FOOLS. WE are those fools who could not rest In the dull earth we left behind, But burned with passion for the West And drank strange frenzy from its wind. The world......

" The Ignorant Impatience Of Taxation." [to The Editor Op

THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sra,—In your issue of November 30th (p. 852) this phrase is attributed to Peel. Was it not Castlereagh who used it in 1816 ? (" Dictionary of National......

[to The Editor Of The "spectator. "] Sir,—the Rev. Henry T.

Hooper, whose letter I was glad to see in your last issue, denies that the Methodist Recorder is "the official organ" of Methodism, and affirms that the "Prayer-book " is in use......

" Theophrastus Such."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " EP EDFATOR.1 "Reminiscences of George Eliot," a paper contained in Mr. Frederic Harrison's interesting volume called "Memories and Thoughts," I came upon......

A Rejoinder.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Su , — May I call attention to remarks made in a letter printed in your issue of November 23rd signed by Mr. Sydney H. Carr? As one of your......

"the Cambridge Modern History."

[To THE EDITOR OF TRH "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I observe a letter by Mr. Alison Phillips on the subject of his article in Vol. X. of "The Cambridge Modern History." Without desiring to......

Prayer-book Revision.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE * SPEOTATOR."] Sit,—The Church of Christ here to-day in this twentieth century, the Christian folk of our own Christian land, are becoming conscious (so......