ace's secret is, of course, perfectly safe with us, and
we should write privately, but have no right to disturb a lady's
_incog._ As your grace is pleased to prefer periwinkles we must bow, but
a good deal may be said for whelks. We cannot, however, concur in your
opinion of the music of _Rigoletto_, which we must, with all deference,
pronounce "stunning." Your enclosure shall be duly forwarded to the
Marquis.

ARCHIMEDES.--Yes, logarithms and decimals mean the same thing, and to
reduce decimals into the concrete formula of logarithms, it is only
necessary to extract the cube root and take the middle term (of course
omitting fractions) until the tangents have for their basis the sine of
the complement. Any charity boy could show you the process.

S. F. (Leeds).--We are surprised at such ignorance in a place of
progress like Leeds. The Letters of Junius were not written by any man,
but by Lady Mary Wortley Montague, who conveyed them to the press
through her friend John Evelyn, author of the poem of _Silver_ (on which
Phillips founded his, of the _Splendid Shilling_), and she took the name
of Junius as a sort of joke, because at the time of writing them she
wore one of the Brutus crops introduced at the French Revolution.

JACK ROBINSON.--Rather, and before you could mention your own name. But
when you send us grouse, send a leash, not a brace.

MACDONALD PAUL says, that the family of Skirwharmlie is Scotch, and its
members have been worthy to rank with many of whom Scotia is most proud.
Owing to the unfortunate prejudices of past ages against treason, arson,
cattle stealing, and the like, the family was continually decimated by
judicial interposition, but its representative keeps, or kept (for the
police are very tyrannical) a marine store shop near Old Gravel Lane.

ROSE AND MATILDA.--Very much ashamed of both of you. To write to two
officers whom you do not know, making them offers of marriage, might,
under certain circumstances, be defended. But to tie your letters to the
necks of two kittens, and to fling the inoffensive creatures in at the
military party's windows, was contrary to all etiquette. Pray abstain
from such demonstrations, if you wish us to think you ladies.

HEIR-AT-LAW.--We are afraid we cannot assist you in tracing your
relative. There was, we think, a person named Smith living either in
Clapham or Shoreditch during the early part of the present century, and
you might search the registries of the