I want to say how glad I was when I heard from the great round world that General Gomez had won a victory.  I wish that that brutal General Weyler had been killed instead of General Maceo.  Wasn’t it extraordinary that all the trees in India were covered with that queer stuff?  I wonder how it got there?  Have any of the Hindustanees risen yet?

    I am also very interested in the war Greece is having with
    Turkey.  I wish the powers would not interfere with Greece and
    Turkey, but let them fight it out.

Your picture of a statue of King Arthur has a shield.  We have a
photograph of a statue in a tomb at Innsbruck, but it has no
shield.  Did Fischer make two statues?

I wish the great round world were published twice a
week.

Yours very truly,
William Thorn K.
15 West Sixteenth Street, New York. 
March 14, 1897.

DEAR YOUNG FRIEND: 

The original statue of King Arthur had no shield, though it was evidently intended that it should have one.  Some years ago an appropriate shield was made for it.  The photographs are sometimes with it and sometimes without it, though as the statue stands now in the church it is with the shield as illustrated in the great round world.

We have heard of no fresh rising in India; the plague and the famine are weakening the people so much that they have little spirit of revolt left.

Editor.

We are gratified to print the following letter: 

Dear editor: 

We, the citizens of the Junior Republic, wish to thank you for
those magazines, the great round world, that you were
so kind to send to us.

We have entered them in our library and they are being read thoroughly by the citizens.  The article on our Republic in the March 4th number of the great round world is exactly as that which has taken place; and, considering that this article was so truthful, we will use the Cuban and other news in your magazine as our authority when we converse on those subjects of which your magazine treats.

Yours sincerely,

William DAPPING, Judge Criminal Court. 
C.G.  Smith, District Attorney. 
Jacob G. Smith, President of G.J.R. 
C.W.  Brewster, Secretary of State. 
A. Anderson, President of Provident Fund. 
Le Roy W. Oliver, Congressman. 
S.E.  Brown, Senate. 
Louis FURHMAN, Keeper. 
James Westervelt. 
T. Hernan, Speaker of House. 
L.M.  Young, Speaker of Senate. 
Edward king, Proprietor of Restaurant. 
Major Hervey E. Miller, Secretary of Treasury.