ALPEDIAN, although a boy, takes great pleasure in reading THE GIRL'S OWN PAPER. We are very glad to hear it, ALPEDIAN. Nevertheless we cannot undertake to advise boys as well as girls in these columns. However, in reply to your special questions, we may say that a boy must be articled to a firm of solicitors for some years, and the fee is usually a high one. Afterwards your prospects of success would depend partly on yourself and partly on any connection you might possess among barristers. A solicitor with no legal connection is apt to have an uphill fight for work. ANN (_Missionary Work_).--Missionary societies do not always insist on candidates passing any examination, but they would only accept the services of a young woman who had received a good general education. Candidates for work in missions generally spend a period of probation in some of the training schools. Further particulars could be obtained from the Secretary of the Society for Promoting Female Education in the East, 267, Vauxhall Bridge Road, S.W. To judge from your handwriting, you are at present rather young to enter on such work as this. There is always, however, plenty of useful work that girls may do among the poor at home. Girls' Clubs, for instance, often require helpers. MISCELLANEOUS. LILY.--Your brother certainly shows great promise. He should, however, try to perfect himself in mathematics, as architectural construction depends greatly upon this science, and especially upon mechanics. He should also sketch buildings from nature, and make measured drawings of some building, a church or house or such like, and carefully read works upon architecture, such, for instance as _The Glossary of Architecture_, Fergusson's _Architectural Handbook_, Rosengarten's _Handbook of Architectural Styles_ (translated by W. Collett-Sanders). He would also gain some information from "Architecture, or the Art of Buildings," published in THE GIRL'S OWN PAPER, October 24, 1885, to May 22, 1886, and contained in _The Girl's Own Annual_, commencing October 3, 1885. Although against our rules we return the drawings to you as you requested for which you sent stamps, but you give a very meagre address.