A. B. C.—Certainly, Meran, in the Tyrol, is one of the very first places for the grape cure; but it is so popular that you should engage apartments or hotel accommodation some time prior to your visit. We have made the cure there, and consider it a beautiful locality. It stands at 1,100 feet above the sea-level. Should you find Meran too expensive, try Botzen, also a charming place at Gries, a suburb, full of shady gardens, and detached villas, and pensions. Here the “air cure,” as well as grape cure, is carried out. Should you decide on Botzen, you had better write to the Hôtel Badl, or the Schwartze Gries, in the Square Botzen. You could drive out to Gries from thence, and suit yourself. One piece of advice will be valuable to you. Take a less quantity of grapes than the full amount generally prescribed, and procure from a doctor or chemist the tooth-powder essential for the preservation of the teeth. The peculiar acid of grapes tends to destroy the enamel. Remember this. MINNIE.—You will have to commence paying dog tax as soon as your puppy has passed six months of age, when you will be charged 7s. 6d. per annum. B. D.—The address of the “Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,” is 105, Jermyn Street, St. James’s, S.W. The secretary is John Colman, Esq. ROVER.—The phrase, “between dog and wolf,” is applied to the dusk, when there is neither clear daylight nor darkness. There is the same phrase in Latin and French, viz., “_Inter canem et lupum_,” and “_Entre chien et loup_.” GLODEN CARRICK.—The origin of the name “London” is of remote times in English history. If from the Celtic, it is a corruption of _Luan-dun_, “City of the Moon,” which seems appropriate, considering that, according to tradition, a temple to Diana—the Moon—stood on the site of St. Paul’s. Other origins are given for the name; such as “Lud’s town,” being so called after a mythical king of Britain (so termed by Dr. Brewer). Stowe, however, speaks of him as a real character, and says he repaired the city and built Lud-gate; and that, in the year 1260, the gate was decorated with the figures of kings—Lud included. In the time of Edward VI. the heads of these monarchs were knocked off—possibly being mistaken for effigies of saints—and “Queen Mary,” Stowe continues, “did set new heads upon their bodies again; and the twenty-eighth of Queen Elizabeth, the gate was newly and beautifully built, with images of Lud and others, as before” (_Survey of London_). Spenser, in his _Faerie Queene_, confirms the tradition that Lud— “... Built that gate of which his name is hight, By which he lies entombèd solemnly.”