We have been taking you ever since 1880, and we like you better than any other book. I think your best stories are, "Little Lord Fauntleroy," and "From Bach to Wagner." Hoping you will print my letter, for my sister would not write--(she said you would not print it, but I hope to show her that you will) I remain, Your devoted reader, N. C. NEW YORK. DEAR "ST. NICK" (as you are nick-named among us): I have taken you ever since I was a very "small girl," and now, I am sorry to say, I am a very large one of eighteen. I am told that I ought to abandon dear old "ST. NICK" for some "grown-up magazine," and I feel that it is indeed sad to grow old if giving up ST. NICHOLAS is one of the penalties, which I shall take care that it shall not be. I have just fallen in love with "Little Lord Fauntleroy," and I wish the "small boy" of the present day would copy after him, but I fear that would be too "pretty a state of things." I am afraid to keep on lest I lose the opportunity of seeing myself in print and of boring the readers of the Letter-box; so I shall close to avoid such a calamity. Faithfully yours, YUM YUM. NEW ORLEANS. DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: I am one of your constant readers, having taken ST. NICHOLAS from the first number, and I do not think that a more interesting magazine for boys and girls can be found. I live in the quaint old Creole City of Nouvelle Orleans, as the Creoles call it. I was born here, and I expect to live here all my life. I do not think that you have any correspondents from New Orleans, at least I have seen none in the Letter-box, so I take the liberty of writing to you. I tell you, dear old ST. NICK, it would do you good to come and see our Carnival here in March; many children are dominoed and masked in fearful and fantastic costumes. Rex, King of the Carnival, enters in grand procession the day before Mardi-Gras, usually coming up the river on a steamboat, gayly decked in bunting. All the military turn out to escort him to the Royal Palace. The artillery battalions salute him on the levee, and then he parades through all the principal streets. Generally there are three night processions--those of Momus, Comus, and Proteus--and they are gorgeous beyond description, and there is one day procession--that of Rex--which is also magnificent; there are also a great many Burlesque organizations--I. O. O. M. (Independent Order of the Moon), and the Phunny Phorty Phellows are the principal ones, I hope you will publish this, as I think it will interest the boy and girl readers of ST. NICHOLAS; it is my first letter. I forgot to say that King Rex also parades the day after his arrival. Your loving reader, WILLIAM S. P. NEWPORT, R. I.