Very truly,
D.K. LIPPINCOTT'S MOTHER.
194 FAIRMOUNT AVENUE, NEWARK, N.J.

DEAR MASTER LIPPINCOTT:

I am delighted that you and your little friends are interested in the
matter of salting the streets, and that you are eager to put a stop to
such cruelty.

In the first place, you can help by telling every one about it, and by
getting people, old and young, interested. Do you know that not one person
to whom I have spoken about it--aside from Dr. Johnson, the people at the
A.S.P.C.A., and Mr. Harison--knew anything about it? Strange, was it not?
A good many things are permitted because people do not know just how
dreadful they are.

As to the method of learning just where salt has been used, I know only
the one of which the article tells you, and that is: if there is snow or
ice in other places, and the tracks are covered with water, then you may
know that there is a reason for it. And inasmuch as the water would be
twenty degrees below freezing, I believe that you could determine the
presence of salt by means of the mercury. If you had a thermometer which
would register that number of degrees, and were to plunge it into the
slush, the sensitive mercury would tell the story.

As to the person to whom you should complain: at any of the offices of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The New York Society is
at 10 East 22d Street, and there are branches or agents of the Society in
nearly every town of importance.

Yours sincerely,
IZORA C. CHANDLER.

BOOK REVIEWS.

The editor is pleased to acknowledge the following clever account of Nora
Perry's "A Flock of Boys and Girls," published by Little, Brown & Co.,
Boston.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE GREAT ROUND WORLD:

If any one wants to read an interesting book, I will tell you
one of Nora Perry's books, called "A Flock of Girls and Boys."
It is a collection of short stories, and tells of the scrapes
they got into and how they got out of them, and it has the
language boys and girls use every day. There is one story that I
was especially impressed with: the name of it is "Major Molly's
Christmas Promise." It was about a little girl who made a
promise to a little Indian girl; and she kept her promise; and
in doing that, although she did not know it, saved her mother's
and father's life, besides her friends having to go to war.

MADELEINE H.P.