Answers to Correspondents

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 29, 26 July 1923, Page 23

Answers to Correspondents

Orient. Short story hit the first fence badly. Giroflee. —Thanks for sending us your verses. We cannot improve on the sound advice given by Dr. Johnson to a young poetess, who, while he was reading her effort, remarked hopefully “I have other irons in the fire too, sir.” “Put this with them, my dear!” Anxious. —We do not run a medical department, so that we really regret that we cannot recommend a gargle likely to help your singing. Personally we should be glad to get a prescription that would keep other people ( from trying to sing within ten miles of us. Sacerdos. We have more than once said that we know no better works on early Irish history than Dr. Eoin Mac Neill’s two volumes on early Irish history. But they are not easy reading. However, do not pretend that you know anything about the subject unless you have read them. As for the best book of the later revival, we hold it is Pearse’s volume of plays and stories. H.M. —There is certainly no disgrace attached to receiving the old age pension. We only regret that our own baptismal certificate is an obstacle to securing it for the present, as the Government does not take into o account that an editor travels towards old age at the rate of a year per week. In the Dunedin climate the speed is even more terrific.