DEAR EDITOR: 

I am very much interested in your paper, and especially the Cuban
war accounts, and I hope that they will get free soon.  My teacher
gets the paper every week, and soon I hope to get it myself.

I am trying to get a hundred subscriptions for your paper.

Wishing you long success, I remain

                                 Your faithful reader,
                                        MERRITT T.W. 
     NEW YORK, May 24th, 1897.

Many thanks to Joseph W.P. and Merritt T.W. for their kind letters.  We are very pleased that Merritt is trying to get subscriptions for us, and hope he will succeed, and be able to earn himself a first-class bicycle.

BOOKS RECEIVED.

“The Taming of Polly,” by Ellas L. Dorcey; published by Benziger Bros., 1897, price 85 cents.

“Harry Dee,” by Francis J. Finn; published by Benziger Bros., 1897, price 85 cents.

“Percy Winn,” by Francis J. Finn; published by Benziger Bros., 1897, price 85 cents.

“Claude Lightfoot,” by Francis J. Finn; published by Benziger Bros., 1897, price 85 cents.

“A Summer at Woodville,” by Anna T. Sadlier; published by Benziger Bros., 1897, price 85 cents.

“Three Girls, Especially One,” by Marion A. Faggart; published by Benziger Bros., 1897, price 85 cents.

“The Scrape that Jack Built,” by C.A.  Liljencrantz; published by A.C.  McClurg & Co., 1897, price $1.25.

“The Fatal Diamonds,” by E.C.  Donnelly; published by Benziger Bros., 1897.

“The Boys in the Block,” by M. Fegan; published by Benziger Bros., 1897.

“My Strange Friend,” by F.J.  Finn; published by Benziger Bros., 1897.

BOOK REVIEWS.

We have received from the A.D.F.  Randolph Company a copy of a very interesting game called “Kindergarten in Missions,—­American Indians” ($1.00).  It consists of a number of cards with pictures of Indians and different scenes in an Indian Village; these are to be cut out and put on stands which are also furnished, forming, when complete, an Indian Village.  It will be great fun cutting these pictures out and afterward doing the various things with the Indian Village, suggested in the directions.

They also send an attractive “Pocket History of the Presidents,” containing portraits, together with a little historical sketch of each.  In the book is also a list of States with their estimated wealth, and a number of other details of great interest; price of this little book is 25 cents.

We have received a number of copies of “The Story of Washington,” a bright little book, written, and illustrated also, by children, compiled by Jessie R. Smith, of the Santa Rosa Public Schools; price, 20 cents.

Our boys who are contemplating business and are anxious to fit themselves in bookkeeping will be delighted to know of “Waggener’s Bookkeeping Simplified.”  It is the most compact little book for this purpose we have ever seen; everything is condensed in seventy-seven pages, and nothing seems to have been left out that is necessary to a good, clear, practical knowledge of the subject.  Publisher’s price, $1.00.