OUR OPEN LETTER BOX.
La Petite Violette wishes to find a poem with a refrain to each verse "Belle Marquise." She saw a quotation from it as a heading to a chapter in a book entitled Woman and the Shadow.
Miss M. A. C. Crabb and Elpis answer Lennox by referring the verse she quotes—
"Alas! how easily things go wrong,"
to a poem in the 19th chapter of George Macdonald's "Phantastes: a Faerie Romance." They agree in saying that the second verse is not by the same pen.
Peterkin, Gertrude Ashworth, Klondyke, B. D. Ward, M. E. Bates, "Stick," R. M. Cooke, Mabel Entwistle and "The Eldest Girl," inform Ethel Rimmer that Christina Rossetti's poem beginning—
"When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me,"
has been set to music by Malcolm Lawson, and is entitled "Hereafter," in keys E♭ and G. It appeared in the June number of the Strand Musical Magazine for 1895. "A Lover of the 'G.O.P.'" says it has been set to music by C. A. Lee, either for a soprano or an alto voice.
R. C. R. suggests to Gold Dust that the poem "Tit for Tat" is contained in "Original Poems for Infant Minds," by Jane Taylor, her sisters and brother. If this is the poem sought for, we may add that the volume is published by Routledge.
One of the First Readers, Azie, asks for the author of a poem entitled "Maggie and the Angels," containing two lines—
"Maggie, are they the angels?
And be they always there?"
Perseveranza would be glad to know the publishers of a picture-book of performing frogs or cats from which she could copy for painting on dessert doyleys.
L B. N. R. wishes to know the author of the following lines—
"There is a river which flows for ever,
And the flowers that bloom on its banks
Grow bright, as they glitter in grateful endeavour
To vie in a perfume of thanks."