SNOWDROP.—1. Yes; we are afraid we must confirm the opinion of your relations, that your writing _is_ very bad; but do not despair! Purchase some good copybooks and practise every day.—2. “The Anchor’s Weighed” is a very well known nautical song, and you could purchase it in a cheap form by inquiring at any music shop, so that it is hardly necessary for us to print all the words here. JOYCE.—The play to which you refer, “The Witches’ Curse,” is by Miss Alcott, the author of _Little Women_, and you can procure it separately; “The Witches’ Curse and Other Plays, by Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy.” Inquire at your bookseller’s. We have seen it prettily acted by children. HILDA QUELCH.—1. Write to the Registrar, University of London, Burlington Gardens, W., for a syllabus of the Matriculation exam.—2. Your writing does not strike us as “babyish,” but it is a little small and cramped. We do not admire the backward slope; but if you wish to retain that, you may still acquire greater freedom by practice and care. Two questions are our limit. We thank you for your kind little letter and assure you of our good wishes. OUR OPEN LETTER BOX. STANMORE’S query concerning some verses is answered by DOROTHY A. CROSS and “NELL.” The authoress is said by the former to be Miss M. E. Manners, though the lines are printed anonymously. NELL encloses a similar poem, which we print _verbatim_. THE FORGET-ME-NOT. It’s said that ages, long ago, when God had formed the earth and heaven, He called the flowers one by one, until to all sweet names He’d given: To one, pure Lily, other Rose, another Violet, or Daisy fair, As each bright flower before Him passed, to wear anew its Father’s care. But oh! one day, a tiny flower, with pale blue eye and little tear, Came back to Him and said, “Dear Lord, I’ve forgotten quite my name, I fear.” Then looking down upon the flower, which trembling stood, with bended head, Without reproof or look unkind, “Forget-Me-Not,” He gently said. _Copyright._ E. RIDLEY. NINETTE (Budapesth) has four answers. N. E. COOTE tells her she will find “The Song of the Shirt” and “Somebody’s Darling” in _No. VI. Royal Reader_. F. W. STONE refers her to _Bell’s Standard Elocutionist_, published by Hodder and Stoughton. “ROSEBUD” says the poems are both in _The Art of Speaking_, by Harold Ford. EDITH WALPOLE, 58, Talgarth Road, West Kensington, London, refers her to vol. v. of _The Royal Reader_, but offers to copy out and send both poems to Ninette. JANET wishes to know the title and author of the song in which these lines occur— “Blue seas, and blue skies, New friends, and new ties.” E. M. W. seeks the authors of the two following quotations, and the poems from which they are taken:—