(To be continued.)


ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

STUDY AND STUDIO.

T. R. A. M. A.—We think you must be confusing two poems. The lines—

“O Mother Ida! many-fountained Ida,

Dear Mother Ida, hearken ere I die!”

recur frequently in “Œnone,” a poem by Tennyson; they may have been confused by someone with the extract from Macaulay’s “Horatius,” which you quote—

“O Tiber, Father Tiber,

To whom the Romans pray,”