We must congratulate all three of our young friends on their excellent writing. They are among the best written letters we have received so far. Etta's is particularly clear and good. Frederic D. writes a second letter, asking about Crusoe's Island. We have heard nothing new about Juan Fernandez. We have, however, written to the Consul at Valparaiso and asked him if he can give us any information. We cannot get an answer for several weeks, but when we do all our doubts about Crusoe's Island will be set at rest. We thank Swift T., of Yonkers, for his very kind and friendly letter. It pleases us very much to know that our young friends like the paper and are anxious to receive it every week. DEAR EDITOR: I want to say how glad I was when I heard from THE GREAT ROUND WORLD that General Gomez had won a victory. I wish that that brutal General Weyler had been killed instead of General Maceo. Wasn't it extraordinary that all the trees in India were covered with that queer stuff? I wonder how it got there? Have any of the Hindustanees risen yet? I am also very interested in the war Greece is having with Turkey. I wish the powers would not interfere with Greece and Turkey, but let them fight it out. Your picture of a statue of King Arthur has a shield. We have a photograph of a statue in a tomb at Innsbruck, but it has no shield. Did Fischer make two statues? I wish THE GREAT ROUND WORLD were published twice a week. Yours very truly, WILLIAM THORN K. 15 West Sixteenth Street, New York. March 14, 1897. DEAR YOUNG FRIEND: The original statue of King Arthur had no shield, though it was evidently intended that it should have one. Some years ago an appropriate shield was made for it. The photographs are sometimes with it and sometimes without it, though as the statue stands now in the church it is with the shield as illustrated in THE GREAT ROUND WORLD. We have heard of no fresh rising in India; the plague and the famine are weakening the people so much that they have little spirit of revolt left. EDITOR. We are gratified to print the following letter: DEAR EDITOR: We, the citizens of the Junior Republic, wish to thank you for those magazines, THE GREAT ROUND WORLD, that you were so kind to send to us. We have entered them in our library and they are being read thoroughly by the citizens. The article on our Republic in the March 4th number of THE GREAT ROUND WORLD is exactly as that which has taken place; and, considering that this article was so truthful, we will use the Cuban and other news in your magazine as our authority when we converse on those subjects of which your magazine treats. Yours sincerely,