pt.

ASPHODEL.--The 29th of April, 1870, was a Friday. When a man says he is
"very much in love" with the girl to whom he is speaking, he means her
to give him some encouragement to say more, and in a business-like,
practical way.

A FEARFUL ONE.--A polypus in the nose has to be cut out, but the patient
must be under the influence of chloroform. It is more usually a man's
than a woman's disease. Your letters should be rounder.

UNE DEMOISELLE.--It is our ordinary form of greeting to say "How do you
do?" It is an idiomatic phrase, and does not exact an answer as to the
state of your health any more than the salutation "Good day." If anxious
for information as to how you are, more direct inquiries will follow the
salutation. Only ignorant persons reply to "How do you do?" "Very well,
thank you; how are you?"

A. B.--The first and second volumes of the G. O. P. are entirely out of
print, as also are all the indexes, excepting that for vol. vi. None of
these will be reprinted. We request our readers to take note of what we
say, as it will save them waste of time in writing for them.

RUBY KINGSLEY.--We cannot continue giving space for repeating the story
of the willow pattern.

* * * * *

MISS KING, the Secretary of the Society for Promoting the Employment of
Women, 22, Berners-street, Oxford-street, W., writes:--In the G.O.P. for
September there is an article (one of a series) on wood engraving by Mr.
R. Taylor. I have read the articles with great interest, and I entirely
agree with the greater part of what Mr. Taylor says. But he writes as if
there were no opening for girls in the trade. I fully admit that only a
small number are at present employed in it, but he writes that he does
not believe that engraving can be effectually taught in schools or
classes, and that he has not met with a single individual who has
attained by this means skill enough to earn a livelihood. Now it is a
fact that there are 12 or 14 girls employed at an engraver's in the
City, who have learnt engraving at the City and Guilds of London Art
School, which was established about six years ago, and some of these
girls are doing excellent work and earning very good wages. Engraving is
an art which requires persevering study for four or five years at the
least, so that the school has not yet been established for a
sufficiently long time to have trained a large number of girls, but the
instruction given there is th