“Eel of the lake,” I presume, was that of the Lake of Bolsena; Pope Martin IV. died of eating too many, in spite of their high price. You observe I do not reckon my Fors Eel to be of Bolsena; I put it at the modest price of a soldo a pound, or English tenpence. One cannot be precise in such estimates;—one can only obtain rude approximations. Suppose, for instance, you read the Times newspaper for a week, from end to end; your aggregate of resultant useful information will certainly not be more than you may get out of a single number of Fors. But your Times for the week will cost you eighteenpence. You borrow the Times? Borrow this then; till the days come when English people cease to think they can live by lending, or learn by borrowing. I finish with copy of a bit of a private letter to the editor of an honestly managed country newspaper, who asked me to send him Fors. “I find it—on examining the subject for these last three years very closely—necessary to defy the entire principle of advertisement; and to make no concession of any kind whatsoever to the public press—even in the minutest particular. And this year I cease sending Fors to any paper whatsoever. It must be bought by every one who has it, editor or private person. “If there are ten people in —— willing to subscribe a penny each for it, you can see it in turn; by no other means can I let it be seen. From friend to friend, or foe to foe, It must make its own way, or stand still, abiding its time.” NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE. The following bit of a private letter to a good girl belonging to the upper classes may be generally useful; so I asked her to copy it for Fors. “January, 1874. “Now mind you dress always charmingly; it is the first duty of a girl to be charming, and she cannot be charming if she is not charmingly dressed. “And it is quite the first of firsts in the duties of girls in high position, nowadays, to set an example of beautiful dress without extravagance,—that is to say, without waste, or unnecessary splendour. “On great occasions they may be a blaze of jewels, if they like, and can; but only when they are part of a great show or ceremony. In their daily life, and ordinary social relations, they ought at present to dress with marked simplicity, to put down the curses of luxury and waste which are consuming England. “Women usually apologize to themselves for their pride and vanity, by saying, ‘It is good for trade.’ “Now you may soon convince yourself, and everybody about you, of the monstrous folly of this, by a very simple piece of definite action. “Wear, yourself, becoming, pleasantly varied, but simple dress, of the best possible material. “What you think necessary to buy (beyond this) ‘for the good of trade,’ buy, and immediately burn.