The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 986, November 19, 1898Various
General
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 986, November 19, 1898
Various
Children's literature -- Periodicals
MONTROSE.--The most beautiful volume of sacred poetry with which we are
acquainted is _Verses_, by Christina G. Rossetti (Society for Promoting
Christian Knowledge). It contains 225 pages, and the price is (about)
2s. 6d. There are many miscellaneous collections, the price of which
you can learn from any bookseller, e.g., _The Book of Praise_, compiled
by Sir Roundell Palmer; _Lyra Anglicana_, _Apostolica_, _Germanica_,
_Christiana_.
C. A. M.--There are a great many classes for correspondence. We have
mentioned in this column that R. G. P., Fairview, Four Oaks, Sutton
Coldfield, gives correspondence lessons at 1s. per lesson. Particulars
of instruction by correspondence can be obtained from the Secretary,
Association for the Education of Women, Clarendon Building, Oxford.
There are also the Queen Margaret Correspondence Classes; apply Hon.
Secretary, 31, Lansdowne Crescent, Glasgow; and the St. George's
Correspondence Classes; apply to the Secretary, 5, Melville Street,
Edinburgh. We applaud your wish to improve your arithmetic, and hope
you will try in one of these directions.
ALEXANDRA CARAGEORGIADES (Cyprus).--Thank you for your pleasant little
letter. The _Girls' Outdoor Book_ is illustrated. If your friend Miss
Mitchell reads this, she will know you send your love to her.
WYMONDHAMITE.--Many thanks for your suggestions. We have already
received answers concerning "The Doctor's Fee," but are grateful to
you for your kind letter. Your answer and inquiry appear in "Our Open
Letter Box."
OUR OPEN LETTER-BOX.
VIOLET wishes to know the author of two verses beginning,
"It is in loving, not in being loved,"
"The heart is blest."
We cannot find them among Dr. Bonar's "Hymns of Faith and Hope," though
Violet suggests they are by him.
BRIAR ROSE asks for a book of recitations containing "The Little Hero"
and "The Sioux Chief's Daughter."
WE have two answers to "LENNOX." One is from "C. J. HAMILTON," who
complains of her misquotation, and gives George Macdonald's lines as
follows:--
"Alas! how easily things go wrong.
A sigh too much, or a kiss too long,
And then comes a mist and a weeping rain,
And life is never the same again.
Alas! how hardly things go right.
'Tis hard to watch on a summer's night,
For the sigh will come, and the kiss will stay,
And a summer night is a winter day."
"BERTHA" sends us "the whole of the poem" as quoted in a book entitled
_The Everyday of Life_, by the Rev. J. R. Miller, D.D. To the verses
already transcribed, which we ourselves recognise as the only ones from
the pen of George Macdonald, she also adds that quoted by "Lennox" and
another.
"And yet how easily things go right,
If the sigh and the kiss of the winter's night
Come deep from the soul in the stronger ray
That is born in the light of the winter's day.
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