LD."

MY DEAR SIR: If, by your valuable paper to be published next week,
you will kindly inform me where I can enter into communication with
some official of the schoolship _St. Mary's_ as to becoming a pupil
of same, and who is the proper person, and particularly if at any
place in this city, you will confer a great favor on me, and
greatly oblige, Yours very truly,

HARRY B.
PHILADELPHIA, PA., June 4th, 1897.

MY DEAR HARRY:

In reply to your inquiry about the schoolship _St. Mary's_ we print the
following letter from Mr. McMullin, the Clerk of the Board of Education.

Mr. McMullin has also been kind enough to send us the rules for
admission to the schoolship. If you will send us your address we will be
pleased to forward them to you.

As your letter was dated from Philadelphia we thought that you might not
be eligible for admission to the _St. Mary's_, and made further
inquiries as to the maintenance of a similar vessel in your city.

EDITOR.

EDITOR "GREAT ROUND WORLD":

I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 10th
inst., and in reply would say that the schoolship "_St. Mary's_" is open
to admission only to boys whose parents reside in New York City, or who
have a guardian appointed here.

The vessel is now at New London, Connecticut, and will leave there about
the 23d inst. for a cruise in foreign waters. No applicant will be
received, however, after the 15th inst.

I am not able to say whether the city of Philadelphia maintains a vessel
similar to ours or not. A letter to the Clerk of the Board of Education
in that city would probably obtain the information you desire.

Respectfully,
ARTHUR MCMULLIN, _Clerk_.

DEAR EDITOR:

My sister takes THE GREAT ROUND WORLD, and I read it and like it
very much. In--I have forgotten the number of the paper--you said
that the Queen of the Hawaiian Islands people did not like her
rule. Well, one of my friends went there some years ago, and when
he was there they loved her just as much as anybody. Will you
please explain this? It was the people who ruled for her that they
did not like.

Good-by. I live at Willowbrook, Auburn, N.Y.