Literature.

A Lover of Poetry would like to know where the following line occurs, and by whom it was written:—

"The league long roller thund'ring on the reef."

Rags and Tatters wishes to know where the following lines are taken from, and who is the author:—

"Till the day break and shadows flee away
In that far future dawn that knows not death."

Ethel writes, in answer to Little Maid of Arcadie, that the quotation—

"Evil is wrought by want of thought,
As well as want of heart"—

is from a poem by Thomas Hood, entitled "The Lady's Dream." Answers also received from several other readers.

Work.

Nelly asks if any one could tell her how to make a pretty and simple lace collar.