DEAR MR. JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT: I think it sounds rather saucy to say just Jack, to the preacher. My Papa is a pulpit man, too, and people call him Mr. Rose, but they leave off “in the pulpit,” because he does not stay there all the time. He can tell me nearly everything I want to know; but there is one thing he is not sure about, and that is how to pronounce Fauntleroy. Should it be Faunt-Le-Roy? Or should the middle syllable be like the last syllable of the word little? I love the little lord so much, I want to know his name exactly. Your friend, HORACE ROSE. Faunt-le-roy is correct. The vowel is sounded in the middle syllable. I’m always in my pulpit, dear Horace, but I’m not always preaching. One eloquent sermon, however, I feel called upon to deliver at this present moment, for it concerns little Lord Fauntleroy.—[Haven’t I heard all about him from the Little School-ma’am and the scholars of the red school-house, and, for that matter, from every boy and girl I know?]—Well, the dear little lord is my text. In fact, he’s the sermon, too. So I need say no more except to publicly announce from my pulpit, with all due solemnity, that he is a boy after your Jack’s own heart. And to every youngster among you, dearly beloved, I say, “Earl or no earl,—go thou and be like him!” THE LETTER-BOX. BANGOR, ME. DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: I am reading “Lord Fauntleroy,” and like it very much, and I hope that the next number will be that the Earl will want the mother to Lord Fauntleroy to come up and live with them. I remain, yours truly, K. W. S. BUFFALO, N. Y. DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: I like you so much that I wish you would come every week instead of every month. I like the story of “Little Lord Fauntleroy” best of all. But you must not let him lose his title. M. C. W. During the last few months, many of those who have been so deeply interested in “Little Lord Fauntleroy” have formed their own eager opinions of just how that beautiful story could, would, or should end. But all such readers, including K. W. S. and M. C. W., will agree that in the concluding chapters, printed this month, Mrs. Burnett has anticipated or fully satisfied their utmost desires. * * * * * CLOVERLEIGH, PA.