H. F. and CONAMARA.--Write to Griffith and Farran, St.
Paul's-churchyard, E.C., for a small shilling manual called a "Directory
of Girls' Clubs," which will give you a large choice of educational,
literary, industrial, artistic, and religious societies instituted for
the benefit of girls, the cost being little more than nominal.
M. HEDGE.--The change of your address, from what has been given in the
"Directory of Girls' Clubs," will probably cause you inconvenience,
which it is now too late to avoid. You should have named the probability
of a change. In any case, we can tell our readers that those who wish to
avail themselves of your useful Society for Studying Languages, should
address the secretary at Lyndhurst Lodge, Chelsea-road, Southsea, Hants.
A. G. O. E.--We scarcely think that any system for helping the memory
for ordinary use would be of service to you in the matter of playing
long pieces of music by heart; it is so much a mechanical operation, the
hands often acting while the mind is preoccupied with other matters. Try
to learn a simple air, not a long piece of six pages.
A SWISS GIRL.--The Cambridge and Oxford examinations are open to
students of all nationalities alike. For information respecting those of
either university, write direct. If you wish to compete in the Cambridge
junior local examination, held in December, you must be under seventeen.
Write to the Rev. G. F. Browne, St. Catherine's College; fee, £1. For
the Cambridge senior you must be under eighteen. The Cambridge higher
(local) examinations are held in December and in June; fees, £1 and £2.
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. Eugène, 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, près du Bois de Boulogne, for which the charge amounts to
£60 per annum. Apply to the lady directress, Mademoiselle Jonte.