The river, from the top of the Golden Island, is exceedingly beautiful; and when Mr. Cushing comes back, we must get him to tell us all about it. Mr. Fletcher Webster has gone with Mr. Cushing, and, as he is a very pleasant, sociable gentleman, I think he will bring us some pretty good stories, too. Perhaps he and Mr. Cushing will dine with the emperor, who doesn’t use knives and forks, but takes up his food with two sticks, put between the thumb and fingers of the right hand. These are called chop-sticks. I hope Mr. Cushing and Mr. Webster will practise the chop-sticks before they dine with the emperor; for if they do not, I am afraid they will get a poor dinner, and make the emperor think that the Yankees are rather awkward! If, indeed, the dinner should consist of salted angle-worms, bird-nest soup, Japan leather, balls made of sharks’ fins, and figured pigeons’ eggs――all of which are esteemed great delicacies in China――perhaps the less they can take up with the chop-sticks, the better they will like it. Our Correspondence. A subscriber sends us the following pretty solution of the enigma in the November number of the Museum:―― When walking by the water’s edge, We often find the modest _sedge_; The lamp that guides our weary feet, Without a _wick_, is incomplete: But these, united, form the name Of _Sedgwick_, worthy of her fame. Several of our little friends have also sent us a correct solution of the same. ―――― The following will speak for itself:―― MR. ROBERT MERRY, I like your riddles and charades very much. My mother says it sharpens the mind to guess them. So, I guess that the answer to the first riddle, in the November number of the Museum, is the letter _R_, and that the answer to the second is the letter _A_. He says that he “is also with a party of five.” Does this mean that he is one of the five vowels? I think your Twenty Geographical Questions were very interesting, but I did not know enough of geography to answer them. I am your true friend, JOHN L――――N. ―――― The following letter is interesting in itself, and it derives additional value from the fact that it has travelled about a thousand miles to find us. It was accompanied by correct answers to our Twenty Geographical Questions; thus showing that our little friends in Illinois know as much as our Yankee girls and boys. We shall be happy to be made acquainted with more of them. MR. MERRY: