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ADA S. BALLIN. LECTURER ON HEALTH. T HE lady who is the subject of our interview in this week's issue, although young,has already achieved very marked successand attained recognised position as a writer and lecturer on health. While she herself is inclined to attribute some of her good luck, as she calls it, to the hands of Dame Fortune, an account of her early life and singular industry will show that merit, as always, has had more to do with it than any freak of fortune. I had often heard of Miss Ada Ballin, and studied her interesting health department of the Lady's Pictorial, in the editorship of which she replaced the late talented Dr. Anna Kingsford. Before having the pleasure of her personal acquaintance I had concluded from the sensible, well thought out articles and advice to correspondents, that Miss Ada Ballin was a lady of somewhat mature years. My surprise may be imagined when I was ushered into the presence of quite a young girl,full of life and ready for any enjoyment, bright eyes, twinkling with merriment, and in every way the reverse of the staid, matronly lady I expected to see. Nevertheless British matrons confide the care and well-being of their little ones to Miss Ballin, seeking her advice on questions of management, diet, and clothing, and she well justifies the confidence reposed in her. She received me with her usual courtesy,and over the cup of five o'clock tea, which does so much to promote the harmony and confidence of an interview, I learned the following particulars. Miss Ada Ballin was educated at home with her brother, who is only 13 months older than herself, till they both went to University College, London; between her and this brother there exists a touching and but too seldom seen perfect understanding, added to a devotion on both sides which is truly wondlerful. While at University College she gained the Hollier Scholarship in Hebrew, which is of the value of £60 per annum, being the only girl who had ever achieved the distinction. She was then 16, and the competition was open to all competitors under the age of 19; they came from all parts of Great Britain to compete for it. This scholar- ship was won by her brother a year later, when she took the Hiemann Silver Medal and Fielding Scholarship, value £25, for highest proficiency in German, while she was proxime accessit for the same distinction in