The following is the title of a book, printed in 1749, for James Hutton, Fetter Lane:--_Hymns composed for the Use of the Brethren by the Right Rev. and most Illustrious C. Z._ (Count Zinzendorf?) I transcribe some specimens. "God's side hole, hear my prayer, Accept my meditation; On thee I cast my care, With childlike adoration. While days and ages pass, and endless periods roll, An everlasting blaze shall sparkle from that hole. * * * * * Lovely side hole, dearest side hole! Sweetest side hole, made for me; O my most beloved side hole! I wish to be lost in thee. O my dearest side hole! Thou art to my bride soul The most dear and loveliest place; Pleura's space! Soul and body in the pass. * * * * * The daughters reverence do, Christess and praise thee too, Thou happy Kyria, daughter of Abijah; We reach each sister of Jehovah, Manness of the man Jeshuah, Out of the pleura Hosannah." JAMES CORNISH. _Age of Trees--"Essex Broad Oak"_ (Vol. v., pp. 10. 40.).--Was not the "Essex Broad Oak" identical with the "Fairlop Oak?" The Fairlop Oak is thus described in _Excursions through Essex_ (Longman, 1818, vol. ii. p. 56.): "In Hainault Forest, about one mile from Barkingside, stands an oak which has been known through many centuries by the name of Fairlop. For an account of this celebrated tree (which seems to have escaped the attention of the laborious Camden, and his indefatigable continuator, Mr. Gough) we are indebted to the Rev. Mr. Gilpin. 'The tradition of this tree,' says this ingenious writer in his _Remarks on Forest Scenery and other Woodland Views_, 'traces it half way up the Christian æra. It is still a noble tree, though it has suffered greatly from the depredations of time. About a yard from the ground, where its rough fluted stem is 36 feet in circumference, it divides into eleven vast arms; yet not in the horizontal manner of an oak, but rather in that of a beach. Beneath its shade, which overspreads an area of 300 feet in circuit, an annual fair has long been held on the first Friday in July.' This celebrated tree was for some time fenced round with a close paling about five feet high. Almost all the extremities of its branches have been sawed off, and Mr. Forsyth's composition applied to them, to preserve then from decay; and the injury which the trunk of the tree had sustained from the lighting of fires have been repaired, as much as possible, with the same composition. On one of the branches a board was fixed, with this inscription, 'All good foresters are requested not to hurt this old tree, a plaister having been lately applied to its wounds.'"