nteresting.

When we read it we said, Master Gray has gone off with his pen and paper
all by himself to write to us, and that pleased us very much, because we
want all our boys and girls to talk to us in their letters just as if they
were speaking to us.

You seem to be a friend of dumb animals. Read Little Friend's letter to
us, in No. 19, page 498. Would you not like to form a Band of Mercy to
help your animal friends? Think of that poor cat, who was probably
half-dead with fright, and the doggie with the can tied to his tail. Would
you not like to know just how to help these poor little kindly things, who
cannot help themselves? EDITOR.

DEAR MR. EDITOR:

I wish to tell Grace of some good books. Three of C.M. Yonge's
books, "Dynevor Terrace," "The Daisy Chain," and its sequel,
"The Trial," are stories of English boys and girls, much like
"Little Women." Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' "Gypsy Breynton" series
are good. The last of the series "Gypsy's Year at the Golden
Crescent" is a boarding-school story. "The Five Little Peppers"
series by Margaret Sidney are her best books. The five little
Pepper boys and girls live in "the little brown house" with
"Mamsy." Their father is dead, and they are very poor. They gain
a rich friend, a very nice boy named Jasper, and all go to live
in his father's house, "Mamsy" becoming the housekeeper. It is
all written in a delightful and natural manner.

Flora Shaw's three books, "Hector," "Phyllis Browne," and
"Castle Blair," are also good. In the first, Hector, a little
English boy, goes to France to live with his little country
cousin Zelie. In the second a little Pole, Count Ladislas
Starinski, comes to England to live with his English cousins.
The last is the story of five Irish boys and girls, their big
dog Royal, and their two cousins Frankie and a French girl
Adrienne (whose name they could not pronounce, and so they
called her Nessa, after one of their dogs which had died, and
which they said looked like her).

Elizabeth Champney's "Witch Winnie" series are very interesting.
The first two, "Witch Winnie" and "Witch Winnie's Mystery," are
boarding-school stories.

Other good books are: "When I Was Your Age," by Laura Richards;
"Two Girls," and "Girls Together," by Miss Blanchard; "Half a
Dozen Girls," by Anna Chapin Ray; "Dr. Gilbert's Daug