ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
STUDY AND STUDIO.
Rosemary.—1. We have sent your quotation to “Our Open Letter Box.”—2. For icing, consult the [February number] of The Girl’s Own Paper, p. 264. You will find many receipts for cakes there and elsewhere in our magazine. This is not literary! but we cannot divide a letter. It is better, if possible, for our correspondents to send separate letters for questions on cookery, health, toilet, etc.
A. Dawson.—We should think Twenty Minutes, by Harriet L. Childe-Pemberton might suit you, or The Witch’s Curse, and Other Plays, by Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (Miss Alcott). French’s catalogue (Covent Garden, Strand, London) contains all sorts of plays for young and old, and might prove a help.
Ida.—We should advise you to get Chambers’s Book-keeping by Single and Double Entry, published at 1s. 6d. You might also take correspondence lessons in the subject. Apply to King’s College, London (Ladies’ Department), the University Correspondence College, 32, Red Lion Square, W.C., or to one of the private addresses occasionally given here.
Blackberry.—Your lines in their beginning recall the hymn—
“There’s a Friend for little children
Above the bright blue sky”;
but they are not written in any metre, and do not rhyme, so they can scarcely be called verse. The writing of lines of different lengths below each other does not constitute metrical composition.
Sofie Abelsberg.—You write a good English letter. You should not say “Since three years I study,” but “I have studied for three years”; and you use “yet” wrongly. You should say “I still make mistakes.” These are common errors for a foreigner, and we congratulate you on expressing yourself so well. We insert your request.