we learn that the preceding note was written by the Rev.F.W.Faber, D.D., as thus: 'The Note at the close of the poem upon the Oxford movement was intrusted to my friend Mr.Frederick Faber.

I told him what I wished to be said, and begged that as he was intimately acquainted with several of the Leaders of it, he would express my thought in the way least likely to be taken amiss by them.

Much of the work they are undertaking was grievously wanted, and God grant their endeavours may continue to prosper as they have done.' 302[a].

*'_The Pine-tree of Monte Mario_,' [II.] Rescued by Sir G.Beaumont from destruction.

Sir G.Beaumont told me that when he first visited Italy, pine-trees of this species abounded; but that on his return thither, which was more than thirty years after, they had disappeared from many places where he had been accustomed to admire them, and had become rare all over the country, especially in and about Rome.