LETTERS FROM OUR YOUNG FRIENDS.

Dear Editor

:

I read with the greatest pleasure The Great Round World, and think, if I may express myself so, that it tells all that is going on in a nutshell.

We subscribe for your little magazine in our class, and we all take turns reading it.

I wish you would inform me the difference between the government of Russia and that of Turkey.

Very truly yours, Robertson P. New York, May 7th, 1897.

Dear Robertson:

Russia is an absolute monarchy, which means a government in which the will of the monarch is positive law.

Turkey is a theocratic absolute monarchy, which means something stronger yet than an absolute monarchy. The Sultan of Turkey is considered the successor to the Prophet Mohammed, and therefore he is not only the political but also the religious head of his people.

Editor.

Dear Editor

:

I read The Great Round World and think it fine. The following are books I have read and found very interesting: "A Knight of the White Cross," by Henty. "Boy Explorers," by Prentice. "Jack Ballister's Fortunes," "Merry Adventures of Robin Hood," both by Pyle. "Log-Cabin Series," by Edward S. Ellis. "Boris the Bear Hunter," by Fred Whishaw.

Did the ten Chinamen who were invited to have their heads chopped off, escape?

Wishing great success to The Great Round World,

I remain your faithful reader, Howard B. New York City, May 2d, 1897.

Dear Howard:

It is too soon to know about the Chinamen yet. They came from San Francisco to see the Chinese Minister in Washington. There was to be a change of Chinese Ministers in this country, and it was expected that Mr. Yang Yu, the gentleman who was leaving this country, would go back to Peking, and so the See Yups wanted to make him the bearer of their messages.

Mr. Yang Yu has, however, been appointed to St. Petersburg, in Russia, and it is doubtful if he can be of much use to his countrymen, as he may not go to China for several years.

It is to be supposed that the Chinamen under sentence of death will have the sense to remain in this country, where they are safe. Editor.

Dear Editor:

I like Cuba. Do you think Cuba is winning, or Spain? I hope Cuba will win. I am six years old. I like The Great Round World. Please put me in the paper. I think that monster you wrote about was very nice, but I would not like him to catch me, and I like the lazy man's stairs. Good-by.

Yours truly, Robert D.F. Baltimore, Md.

Dear Editor:

I think The Great Round World is fine for young folks to read, and even for grown-up people, too. I enjoy reading it very much. I think there is no other little book that will do us so much good as The Great Round World.

I hope the United States will make Spain pay for the cruelty that was done to Dr. Ruiz by them. It looks as if Cuba will win her freedom from Spain, and I hope she will. I remain,

Yours truly, Henry H. Gloucester, Mass., April 14th, 1897.

Dear Editor:

I like The Great Round World very much. I anxiously wait for it to come. I hope Cuba and Spain and all countries will soon be free from war. Do you think that Greece can keep its little island Crete? I was very much interested in the story about the St. Bernard.

Yours truly, Edith McK. Glouchester, Mass., April 14th, 1897.

The Editor takes much pleasure in acknowledging the very nice letters from Robert D.F., Henry H., and Edith McK. They are all nice, well-written letters, which the Editor is very pleased to receive.

The Editor would be much pleased if Ph.D. (McCoy Hall, Baltimore, Md.) would explain his views on the Bering Sea Arbitration Award.

The columns of The Great Round World are always open to arguments on both sides of a question.

If Ph.D. will favor us with a few lines on the subject we shall be delighted to publish them.

Editor.

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ARITHMETICS

Sheldon's Complete 20

Stoddard's Mental 5

" Intellectual 10

Thomson's New Practical 15

" Commercial 30

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" New Practical 20

" High School 30

White's New Elementary 15

" New Complete 20

ALGEBRAS

Boyden's Elementary 20

Bradbury's Beginners' 20

Brooks' (red cover) 25

Milnes' First Book 20

" High School 35

Ray's New Elementary 25

Robinson's New Elementary 35

Wells' Academic 35

" College 50

" Higher 35

Wentworth's First Steps 20

" Elementary 25

" School 30

" Higher 40

" College 40

" Complete 40

White's New Algebra 40

BOTANY

Apgar's Trees 30

Bessey's Elementary 25

" Briefer 35

" Large 50

Dana's Wild Flowers 50

Gray's How Plants Grow 25

" Revised Lessons 30

" " Manual 50

" Lessons and Manual (1 vol.) 65

Vine's Botany 75

Wood's Botanist (red cover) 50

" Class Book " " 75

LATIN and GREEK

Allen and Greenough's

Cæsar (after 1890) 40

Cicero " 40

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Cicero (after 1893) 35

Cæsar " 35

Horace " 35

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Coy's First Latin Book 25

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Goodwin's

Anabasis (after 1895) 50

Greek Gra. (after 1895) 50

Greenough's

Horace 35

Virgil (with Vocabulary) 40

Harkness'

Cæsar (after 1894) 40

Cicero " 40

Latin Gram. (after 1890) 35

Tuel & Fowler's First Book 30

White's First Greek Book 30

" Beginners' Greek Book 50

GRAMMARS

Brown's Revised First Lines10

" English 20

Butler's School English 25

Hart's Gram. and Analysis 15

Hyde's First Book 10

" Second " (with Sup.) 20

" Advanced 15

Maxwell's First Book 15

" Intro (green cov.) 15

" Advanced " 25

Metcalf's Elementary 20

" English Grammar 25

Reed's Introductory 15

Reed and Kellogg's Elementary (after 1890) 15

" Higher (after 1890) 25

Smith's English (revised) 10

Whitney's Essent. of Gram. 15

Whitney & Lockwood's 20

COMPOSITION, RHETORIC, AND LITERATURE

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Genung's Rhetorics each 35

Hart's large " (red edge) " 35

Kellogg's Rhetoric (343 pp.) 30

" Literature 35

Lockwood's Lessons in Eng. 35

Matthew's Literature 35

Shaw's New " (rev.) 40

Swinton's Studies in Lit 35

Waddy's Composition 35

Westlake's Literature 15

GEOMETRY, TRIGONOMETRY, ETC.

Chauvenet'sRev. Geometry 30

Davies' Legendre (after 1885) 40

Loomis' Revised Geometry 25

Olney's New Elem. " 30

Wells' Rev. Plane Geometry. 30

" " P. and S. Geom. 50

" (old ed.) " " 25

" Rev. Trigonometry 30

Wentworth's New P. Geom. 25

" " P. and S. Geometry 50

" Trig., Surv., & Tables 40

GEOGRAPHIES (With North and South Dakota)

Appleton's Physical 35

" First Book 15

" Elementary 20

" Higher 35

Barnes' Elementary 15

Barnes' Complete 25

Butler's Elementary 20

" Complete 35

Cornell's First Steps 10

" New Primary 15

Frye's Elementary 20

" Complete 40

Guyot's New Physical 50

Harper's Introductory 15

" School 35

Houston's New Physical 40

Longman's Geography 25

" Atlas 40

Maury's Elementary 15

" Manual 35

Monteith's First Lessons 10

" Introductory 15

" Manual 25

" New Physical 30

Rand & McNally's Primary 15

" " Larger 30

Redway's 30

Swinton's Primary 15

" Elementary 20

" Introductory 15

" Grammar School 30

" Complete 30

Tarr's Physical 40

Tarbell's Elementary 20

" Larger 40

Tilden's Grammar School 20

Warren's New Primary 15

" Brief 25

" Common School 30

" New Physical 50

CHEMISTRY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND PHYSICS

Appleton's Physics 80

Avery's School Physics 40

" Complete Chemistry 40

Blaisdel's Physiologies (cloth cover, Ginn's Edit.) 20

Barker's College Chemistry 30

" Physics 50

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