" Try to remember that
you must not steal an "e" from the poor little word "please." We shall
be glad to hear from our small friend again, and hope that her next
letter will not be so long in turning up to the top of our great
mountain of letters.
LOCHABER.--Dante was unquestionably greater as a poet and man of genius
than Goethe; but we could not draw such a comparison between the lady
novelists you name; their styles were very different and equally
meritorious.
FELIX.--You had better apply to the editor of _Parodies_, care of
Messrs. Reeves and Turner, Strand, London, W.C., as we have not leisure
to make the search for you.
S. F. S. T. C.--It is quite natural and harmless to appreciate the
regard and love of those around you. If kind and true and helpful to
them, and you maintain your own self-respect in all your words and
actions, they must value and respect you. Your writing is good. It is
inexpedient to repeat the impertinent assertions of those who have not
sufficient powers of discernment between the painstaking replies to our
thousands of correspondents and what they are pleased to designate "a
hoax."
DAISY LAYLOR.--Lettuce leaves can only serve as a _pis aller_, or
"makeshift" as food for caterpillars before the mulberry leaves come
out, just to save them from starvation; but the latter is their natural
and proper food, and yours are probably dying from want of them.
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