is taken from Cowper’s poem “Retirement,” line 623. You will probably find the other poem in some popular reciter. You write well for your age. E. M. SEARLE.—The Latin words, _Nocturna versate manu, versate diurno_, mean, “Turn (them) over with nightly hand, turn (them) over by day.” The words are from Horace. The word “them,” which is understood, refers to examples of Grecian style. [Illustration: TEMPTATION.] POTTS.—Your brother’s “eating dinner enough for two” does not thereby give evidence of a fine constitution. Some lean folks eat enormously, but, as the Scotch express it, “put their food into an ill skin;” they do not assimilate it, and it does them but little good, and so they are always craving for more. There are other reasons for voracious eating, for which a doctor’s advice would be most desirable. It is a disgusting sight, in any case, to see anyone eating double what others do, and it should be checked, not gratified, in youth, if not attributable to disease, in which case recourse should be had to medicine. MOSES.—The Psalms, as given in the Book of Common Prayer, were not _altered_, but only a different version from the translation used in our Bibles was employed, called the Vulgate or Latin version, attributed to St. Jerome, about 384. There was an older version of the Holy Scriptures called the Italic, said to have been made in the beginning of the second century, little more than one hundred years after Christ. Gutenberg and Fust were the first who printed the Vulgate translation, probably about 1455, and that by Fust and Schœffer in 1462. MARY ELIZABETH T.—The evil thoughts that seem forced into your mind against your will, of which you are ashamed, over which you grieve, and against the recurrence of which you pray, are temptations of the devil and his wicked ministers. They are clearly not your own; they are, as it were, whispered in your ears. So long as you pray to be delivered from them, and heartily strive to drive them away, their guilt does not lie at your door. Ask for deliverance, and humbly claim it in the name of the Lord Jesus, and “He is faithful that promised.” See St. John xiv. 12, 13, 14, and xvi. 23, 24. A GARDENER.—Sow the hardy annual’s seeds in February, and in March all the perennials and biennials, and the half hardy annuals in a hot-bed. There are several varieties of honeysuckle, and all of them may be propagated by cuttings. BLANK had better write for the directory to the matron, London National Training School for Cookery, Exhibition-road, South Kensington, S.W. The fee for the training for the post of cookery instructor is twenty-one guineas for the full course of twenty weeks; plain cookery, eight guineas for fourteen weeks. The Edinburgh School of Cookery, 6, Sandwick-place; hon. secretary, Miss Guthrie Wright; also trains teachers in cookery for a fee of fifteen guineas the course, from November to April.