to the Rev. G. F. Browne, St. Catherine's College; fee, L1. For
the Cambridge senior you must be under eighteen. The Cambridge higher
(local) examinations are held in December and in June; fees, L1 and L2.
An honour certificate in this examination admits to Tripos examinations
the members of Girton and Newnham who have resided during a sufficient
number of terms, provided the student has passed a language and
mathematics. If your age should exclude you, you might go to the
universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, or St. Andrews, where no limitations
are made in respect to age.

GUESS.--We advise you to write to the British chaplain of the Embassy
Chapel, in the Rue d'Aguesseau, for information and the best advice, as
he has taken a special interest in the matter of English girls being
sent to French schools, and has publicly addressed the question in all
its many bearings. Address the British Chaplain.

ANXIOUS MOTHER.--See our answer to "Guess." There is a French Protestant
institution, directed by Madame Yeatman Monoury, 27, Bd. Eugene, Parc de
Neuilly, Paris, which is, or was, patronised by the Rev. Canon Fleming,
the late Bishop of Carlisle, Bishop of Down, Lord Napier of Magdala, and
other persons of consideration. There is also a Protestant school at 27,
Rue des Bois, pres du Bois de Boulogne, for which the charge amounts to
L60 per annum. Apply to the lady directress, Mademoiselle Jonte.

ART.

A COLONIAL SUBJECT.--The illuminating body mentioned is used on
parchment and hot-pressed drawing-paper. It is mixed with the
water-colours to render them opaque.

R. C. M.--1. To press flowers, gather them when dry, not quite
full-blown, and before the sun has faded them; press them between sheets
of botanical-paper, change and dry the latter constantly. 2. You can
draw an outline upon a mirror with red pencil and Indian ink. It is
better, however, to mark the design through tracing-paper with a
knitting-needle.

ASTHORE and DOLLY.--The generality of the advertisements named by you
are not to be relied on, and we advise your not spending your money as
you propose.

LARRY WILFER.--Female art scholarships are conferred by the Slade
School, by the Crystal Palace School of Art, and by the National Art
Training School, South Kensington. Apply for farther information to the
secretaries of each of these schools.

A WOULD-BE ARTIST.--There is a school of wood-engraving at 122,
Kennington Park-road. The yearly fee for instr