WAITING.--It would be impossible for us to give such a list, and, indeed, we could not without knowing the kind of work it was and its subject, as some firms publish one thing and others another. Some deal with purely educational works, others take fiction; and many limit themselves to high-class works only, such as those of reference and research. The safest way to proceed is, we think, to write to the Incorporated Society of Authors, 4, Portugal Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields; Chairman, Sir Walter Besant; Secretary, S. Squire Sprigge, Esq. From them you will receive all requisite information and advice on the subject. MAB.--There is no reason why any building or institution should not be inspected if it were thought needful. Health and sanitary inspectors have power to go everywhere, we believe. TINY.--Any strong wide-mouthed phial about 2½ inches high and 1½ inches in diameter, containing spirits of wine, and having a cork stopper, will answer for beetles; the cork should be secured round the neck of the bottle by a piece of string. A smaller bottle can be used with a quill through the cork for smaller insects. But a proper bottle of solid mixture is expressly sold for destroying specimens. There is a very nice little book called _The Home Naturalist_, published at 56, Paternoster Row, which would be useful to you, as it contains full directions for all the processes of catching and preserving insects, plants, woods and stones. Its price is 5s. Insects may be destroyed for collections of specimens without causing suffering. * * * * * [Illustration: “THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME.” [_From the painting by M. Ellen Edwards (Mrs. Staples), exhibited in the Royal Academy._]] * * * * * [Transcriber's Note--The following changes have been made to this text: Page 303: cyclinder to cylinder--“get a glass cylinder”.] End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. No. 997, February 4, 1899, by Various