ve been taking your book two years. I think
it is splendid. Some of the stories are so funny. I go to a private
school, and I am in the Fourth Reader. The girls play on one side of
the grounds and the boys on the other; the cherry-trees are on our
side, and I like it the best. We have lots of fun. I am nine years
old. I have two little sisters, Belle and Marion, and a little
brother, Bobo. When we get big we may write some stories for your
book. We are little now, but everybody was little once.--Your
friend,

KITTY GRIFFITHS.

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Philadelphia, Pa.

DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: I do like you so much, and I wish you would tell
me something. I see pictures and read books in which are the names
Penelope, Juno, Achilles, Hercules, and so on. The dictionary tells
but little about these names, and I want to know all about them. Can
you tell me how to find out?--Truly your friend,

CARRIE H.

You can learn a good deal about the personages you mention from
Bulfinch's "Age of Fable," from Alexander S. Murray's "Manual of
Mythology," and from Mrs. Clement's "Handbook of Legendary and
Mythological Art"; but the poems of Homer,--the "Iliad" and the
"Odyssey,"--of both of which there are good English translations,--are
the chief sources of the information.

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Chicago, Ills.

MY DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: I send you an Enigma to publish in your
magazine. The answer to the Enigma is "Washington."--Yours truly,

WILLIE M.

My 1, 9, 10, is the same as one.
My 8, 1, is two-thirds of two.
My 6, 5, 10, is three-fourths of nine.
My 10, 9, 8, 4, 5, 6, 9, is nothing.
My 3, 2, 1, is what my 5 did.
My 8, 9, 10, is very heavy; but
My 10, 9, 8, is not.
My 6, 5, 7, 4, 8, is always somewhere, but not here to-day.

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THE BOY ENGINEERS: WHAT THEY DID, AND HOW THEY DID IT, is an illustrated
book published by Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons. It seems to have been
written for readers living in England, but young amateur machinists
anywhere would find it an entertaining book. It gives good practical
hints about the management of tools, and explains how to turn and carve
in wood and metal, how to make a clock, an organ, a small house, and how
to set up a steam-engine. The type is large,