EDITH HOPPNER.--The preparation that you mention contains either carbonate or subnitrate of bismuth, sodium carbonate, mucilage of tragacanth, and either compound infusion of gentian or some simple diluent. It is not a pharmocopœial preparation, but it is exceedingly useful and frequently prescribed for indigestion or diarrhœa. TROUBLED.--Wash your head with warm water and borax, dry it well and then apply a little sulphur ointment to the roots of the hair. The complaint is rather difficult to remedy and often lasts many years. ELLIE.--Acne spots do get worse from exposure to the sun. We have frequently noticed this, but cannot say for certain why it should be so. Wearing a veil will keep the effects of the sun from injuring the face. TEETH.--Have your teeth scaled if they are very thickly covered with tartar. Scaling improves and does not injure the teeth. Use the following tooth-powder:--Precipitated chalk, 50 parts; carbonate of magnesia, 50 parts; powdered cuttlefish, 5 parts; powdered orris-root, 5 parts; powdered hard soap, 5 parts; oil of cloves, 1 part. LADY JOAN.--No, we cannot approve of girls' smoking. You are quite right, it is a dirty and disgusting sight. STUDY AND STUDIO. MARY.--1. For the London B.A. degree, three successive examinations are necessary; matriculation, the intermediate B.A., and the final B.A. It would take you three years, under favourable conditions, to pass them.--2. As to whether a girl, just eighteen, could prepare for these examinations at home, working four hours a day, much depends on the ability and the previous education of the student; but she would have to be an unusually clever girl to accomplish it. Coaching, if only by correspondence, is most desirable. Two questions are all we can answer at one time. ROSEVILLE.-- "The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were dead," is the first verse of a song by Thomas Moore. You will find it in any collection of his poems. DOVU (Fiji).--The author of _Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family_ and _The Diary of Mrs. Kitty Trevylyan_, is Mrs. Rundle Charles. MISS ADAMSON, formerly of Tunbridge Wells, desires to inform the readers of THE GIRL'S OWN PAPER that her Amateur Literary Guild has ceased to exist. She recommends an excellent pseudonym club with a printed magazine: address, Miss Cornwall, 10, Princeton Mansions, Red Lion Square, London. We accept no responsibility whatever with regard to this, or any amateur society. A. H. RICHARDS.--In Christina Rossetti's poem "Uphill" the "inn" may be taken as meaning "death" or "the grave." The poem is a sombre allegorical description of life's journey and its inevitable close. "Of labour you shall find the sum," we understand as signifying, "You shall have labour enough and to spare," a stern reply to the inquiry, "Shall I find comfort?" This fine poem is written in Miss Rossetti's austerest strain.