EARNEST STUDENT.—The cheapest musical _conservatoires_ are on the Continent, and it is easy to obtain a first-class musical education for a low fee at such places at Leipsic, Dresden, Bonn, or Berlin, but then the cost of board and lodging has to be added. At Leipsic you would have to pay from about £67 to £90 for board, lodging, and musical instruction, and you can obtain all particulars by addressing a letter to “An das Directorium des Conservatoriums” in one of the towns we have mentioned. In London we think the Guildhall School of Music is the least expensive, as the number of subjects may be limited. In the Royal College the fee is £40 a year for tuition; in the Royal Academy, £11 11s. per term, with an entrance fee of £5 5s. In the “Guildhall,” lessons on separate subjects may be obtained from £1 11s. 6d. per term. We advise you (if you can come to London) to write to these three institutions for lists of fees, scholarships, etc., also to Trinity College, Mandeville Place, Manchester Square, W. We might help you more if we knew where you live. A KENTISH MAID.—Why not enter one of the Training Colleges? You have first of all to pass the “Queen’s Scholarship” examination; apply for particulars, Education Department, London, or A. Bourne Esq., British and Foreign School Society, Temple Chambers, London, E.C. After passing this examination, you receive two years’ excellent training at a nominal fee for board and education, the amount of which fee depends on the college. At Stockwell (a splendid college), it is £25 for two (in special cases three) years’ board and education; at others we believe it is less, but these particulars can be obtained from the individual college. You might also with advantage consult Mrs. Watson’s articles on “What are the County Councils doing for Girls?” in the GIRL’S OWN PAPER for 1897. AMATEUR SOCIETY.—Miss M. Hedge requests us to again bring before our readers her society for studying foreign languages by means of correspondence. A copy of the rules, price twopence, may be obtained on application to her at 19, East Hill, Colchester. MISCELLANEOUS. GERTRUDE P. (Tewkesbury).—We should advise you to get a book on heraldry through some reliable second-hand bookseller. They are not very cheap when large, and that would be the best way of getting a good one. Boutell’s _English Heraldry_, or his _Heraldry Historical and Popular_, would suit you, and they are not expensive even when new. They are the smallest books on the subject. Reeves and Turner, 196, Strand, W., publish the first of them. There are several translations of Dante: Cary, and Longfellow’s of the “Divina Commedia.” The “Inferno” was translated separately by Ellaby in 1871. You would get these easily second-hand, we think.