We have a jolly fire-place. It is large enough for Santa Claus to come right down without any trouble; and he filled our stockings full last year.--From your constant reader, ESTELLE WILMARTH. * * * We have received the following letters in answer to Alice Clinton's question, in the February "Letter-Box," asking for a list of books pleasant to read: Ogdensburg, N. Y. DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: Will you please tell Alice Clinton, if she wants some interesting and instructive books, to read Dickens's "Child's History of England" and Higginson's "History of the United States."--Truly yours, LULIE JAMES. Brooklyn. DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: I have taken you ever since you were born, and I like you better all the while. I think Alice Clinton would enjoy "About Old Story-tellers," by Ik Marvel; "America Illustrated," edited by J. David Williams: and Parley's "Universal History," as they are all very nice.--Your friend, CORA EUGENIA ALWYN. * * * DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: Inclosed you will find a short story which my little brother wrote, as he said he wanted to write something for good ST. NICHOLAS.--Yours truly, J. S. H. THE FISHER. Once there was a boy who did not obey his mother and went fishing and fell into the water how frighten was the mother when she found out that her boy was drowned and the father and mother began to cry and one day a man came to comfort them. But he could not and they never found that boy. * * * WE have received the following lines as an answer to the geographical puzzle in the February number: