in Young's Night Thoughts, Book ii., line 94.
Labore Omnia Florent.—1. Your handwriting is very good indeed. The aspect of your letter would be improved if you would not leave a margin at the end of your lines.—2. Your verses are very fairly good. There is nothing original in "Love," or "Duty." "Lines to a friend" are the best. We are a little reminded of Christina Rossetti's poem—
"Does the road wind up-hill all the way?
Yes, to the very end"—
though of course the subject is entirely different.
OUR OPEN LETTER BOX.
Miss Alma Tàtra Lomnicz, Villa Rodakowski, Sygresse, Hungary, wants to know if any reader will exchange a copy or large photograph of Burne-Jones's picture, "Cherubs," for one by the popular Tyrolese painter, Defregger.
Miss M. Dixon informs Black Luffy that "An Advent Serenade" is in Harper's Young People for 1885, and offers to send a copy of the poem on application to her at The Woodlands, Cragg Vale, near Mytholmroyd.
We have three replies to Adelaide from Helen A. Manning, Labore Omnia Florent, and Frances M. Venables. All enclose the poem by Mrs. Norton, asked for, and Miss Venables suggests that the first line is:
"Word was brought to the Irish king."
Winifred A. Griffiths thanks the correspondents who so kindly came to her aid about "The Voiceless Chimes."