“With the heart as well as the head, Books worth reading must be read.” GIVING. Give, give, be always giving; Who gives not is not living. The more we give The more we live. GRAMMAR.—A school teacher, near Dawson, Ga., having instructed a pupil to purchase a grammar, the next day received a note, thus worded, from the child’s mother:—“I do not desire for Lula shall ingage in grammar as i prefer her ingage in yuseful studies and can learn her how to spoke and write properly myself. I have went through two grammars and can’t say as they did me no good. I prefer her ingage in german and drawing and vokal music on the piano.” THE BOOK OF THE SKY. The great French writer, Victor Hugo, wrote delightful letters to his children, as we might expect from the fond and playful author of _L’Art d’être Grandpère_. From one of them we take the following passage. It occurs in a letter sent from Boulogne to his favourite daughter. “All day,” he says, “I was looking at churches and pictures and then at night I gazed at the sky, and thought once more of you as I watched that beautiful constellation, the Chariot of God, which I have taught you to distinguish among the stars. “See, my child, how great God is, and how small we are. Where we put dots of ink He puts suns. These are the letters which He writes. The sky is His book. I shall bless God if you are always able to read it, and I hope you may.” ANSWER TO TRIPLE ACROSTIC I. (p. 299). 1. I d L e R[A] 2. R I O[B] 3. I o L a S[C] 4. S t Y l E[D] Iris—Lily—Rose. [A] One of the periodicals which, like the _Spectator_, _Rambler_, _Tatler_, &c., were so popular in the early part of the eighteenth century. [B] One of the finest and safest ports in the world. The city was founded in January, 1565, by the Portuguese, who mistook the beautiful bay for the mouth of a large river, and gave it the name of Rio de Janeiro. [C] The companion of Hercules, when he destroyed the Lernœan Hydra. [D] The Roman stylus or style was a sharp point, used for writing on a waxen tablet. The old style was altered in 1582 by Pope Gregory XII. and consisted of passing over ten days in the October of that year; but the new style was not adopted in England until 1752, when the omission of eleven days became necessary in order to rectify the Calendar. A NEW GAME; OR, “HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW?” I went out the other night to an evening party, a thoroughly enjoyable one of the old-fashioned type, where we played games, did what we liked, and were not afraid of being thought silly because we were amused by simple things. One of the games struck me as peculiarly pretty and not too difficult for anyone to join in, and as it was new to me I write it down in case our girls have not heard of it before. It was started during supper by one of the two hostesses remarking, “I have a little garden and in it I buried a private soldier. What flower did he come up?”