* * * * * 15. What is the nearest star to the earth? * * * * * 16. What philosopher of antiquity married a shrew? * * * * * 17. What flower, in the middle of the seventeenth century, became the subject of a popular mania? * * * * * 18. What is the best soil on which to build a house? * * * * * 19. Did anyone ever swim across the Channel from England to France? * * * * * 20. What great lady once in a temper cut off her long and beautiful hair and flung it in her husband's face? * * * * * 21. What is the origin of the name foolscap as applied to paper of a certain size? * * * * * 22. Have flowers ever been used as time-keepers? * * * * * 23. What famous relic of antiquity on its way to this country nearly found its last resting-place at the bottom of the sea? * * * * * 24. Who was the famous carrier who gave rise to a proverb by always making his customers take the horse nearest the stable door? THE ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS, Nos. 13-24, together with the answers to questions 1-12, which have already appeared, must be sent in on or before the 30th of December, 1898. ENTHUSIASM: AN ADDRESS TO SCHOOL-GIRLS. BY ELIZABETH A. S. DAWES, M.A., D.Lit. "Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's prize, be it what it will." _Browning._ "Strive for the truth unto death" (Eccles. iv. 28). "Ye have not resisted unto blood, striving against sin" (Hebr. xii. 4). I propose to address to the readers of this magazine a few words on the subject of "enthusiasm in a good cause;" for undoubtedly a lack of hearty, honest enthusiasm, a general "slackness," both in character and conduct, is a sad characteristic of too many of the present-day girls and young women. For this reason, therefore, I have chosen for you three quotations, all of which speak of the duty of enthusiasm in a good cause, or, in other words, of striving with all our might to accomplish our life's purpose, or for the truth, or in the battle against sin. Now I can imagine someone asking, "Why should we be enthusiastic? What is the good of it?" and to this question I would reply by giving as the three chief reasons: firstly, that nothing great or good can be accomplished without enthusiasm; secondly, enthusiasm in a good cause is one of the chief means of forming and ennobling the character; and thirdly, that it is commanded and commended by Christ.