(1) “What a single word can do! Making life seem all untrue; Driving joy and hope away, Leaving not one cheering ray; Blighting every flower that grew— What a single word can do!” (2) “Not all who seem to fail, have failed indeed; Not all who fail have therefore worked in vain, For all our acts to many issues lead; And out of earnest purpose, pure and plain, The Lord will fashion ends in His good time.” INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE. ⁂ We have to request our correspondents kindly to refrain from sending us letters stamped with 2½d. stamps for us to forward to foreign subscribers. This waste of trouble and of postage distresses us, and we must repeat that we cannot undertake any postal business whatever in connection with this column. We keep no register of addresses, so are unable to forward letters, nor can we engage to return them to the writers. If addresses are not sent for publication on the one side, they must be so sent on the other. We refer our readers to THE GIRL’S OWN PAPER for April, 1898, where we endeavoured to explain our method of procedure. MISS SISSIE REDMOND, Shortlands, Folkestone, aged fifteen, would like to correspond with Miss Anice Cress, also to exchange stamps with girl collectors living abroad. She is an enthusiastic collector and has about 4000 stamps. O MIMOSA SAN has offers of correspondence, with a view to exchanging picture postcards, from Miss Bessie Golding, 9, Handford Street, Derby; Miss Lizzie van Hardenbroek, Hôtel Continental, Mustapha Supérieur, Algiers, Africa; Miss Ethel Miller, Effra Dene, Church Road, Brixton Hill; and Miss Eva Miller, Luthergasse 4, Graz, Styria, Austria. (We imagine this identity of name is only a coincidence.) Will “O Mimosa San” write to these addresses? Miss van Hardenbroek, whose house is near Utrecht, would like to send “O Mimosa San” three Dutch and three Algerian postcards for six Russian ones. EDITH WALPOLE should write direct to Miss Valentine Massaria, whose address we published. MISS INQUISITIVE has an answer from Miss Islay Campbell, “Newhouse,” 25, Sinza Road, Shanghai, China, who would be pleased to correspond with her. NELLIE would very much like to correspond with a girl of her own age (nineteen) who works with her hands, and if possible lives in the country, as “Nellie” lives in London. JAPONICA would be glad if some educated French girl of good family, aged about twenty, would send her address to this column. “Japonica” suggests writing alternate French and English letters, her correspondent doing the same; each to return the other’s letters corrected, when necessary. MISS DOROTHY A. CROSS, Minterne, Cerne, Dorset, aged fourteen, fond of history, French, general reading, and bicycling, wishes for a French correspondent of about the same age and tastes.