(b). Familiarly pronounced "rosin."

(c). Left-handed.

(d). Indicator Major, the great honeybird of South Africa.

(e). See 1 Samuel, xviii.

(f). Lo(c)k.

[Illustration: A CROWN OF FLOWERS

being

POEMS and PICTURES

Collected from the pages of

THE GIRLS OWN PAPER]

EDITED BY CHARLES PETERS.

The Poems are written by the Author of "John Halifax Gentleman," Sarah
Doudney, Helen Marion Burnside, F. E. Weatherly, Annie Matheson, Anne
Beale, Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks, the Rev. W. Cowan, Sydney Grey, Edward
Oxenford, Isabella Fyvie Mayo, Clara Thwaites, Harriet L.
Childe-Pemberton, the Dowager Lady Barrow, and others.

Illustrated by Frank Dicksee, A.R.A., M. Ellen Edwards, W. J. Hennessy,
Davidson Knowles, John C. Staples, Robert Barnes, Charles Green, Arthur
Hopkins, William Small, Frank Dadd, the late Cecil Lawson, and others.

* * * * *

"As _A Crown of Flowers_ is carefully printed upon fine paper, full
value is given to the engravings, which is one of the features of the
magazine from which they are selected, and shows what a marked advance
has been made of recent years in the character of such illustrations,
which will, in the present instance, vie with anything of the kind
produced on this or the other side of the Atlantic."--_The Pictorial
World._

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

EDUCATIONAL.

E. A. T.--There is a School of Telegraphy in Moorgate-buildings, at the
back of Telegraph-street, E.C. All candidates for free admission must
have passed an examination in handwriting and the first four rules of
arithmetic under the Civil Service Commissioners, in Cannon-row, W.C.,
aged not under fourteen nor over eighteen years. They must be gifted
with quickness of eye and ear and a delicate touch. In three or four
months they have acquired the art, working four hours a day. They must
be proficient in the use of four instruments. The pupils in this school
are only intended for service in London.

CEDRICA.--In reference to Gall's or Mercator's projection, you may
perceive that by doing away with perspective you obtain the relative
distances, as well as the height of the mountains compared with the
general surface, without deducting through foreshortening. You write
fairly well, but too large to be pretty.

SINE.--The aurorae are closely connected with the earth's magnetism,
although their exact relationship is unknown. The appearance takes place
equally