I will close now, wishing great success to THE GREAT ROUND WORLD. MARION C. MONTEREY, CAL., April 7th, 1897. We are very much obliged to our kind young readers. Rudyard Kipling's "Jungle Book," of which there are two volumes--"The First Jungle Book" and "The Second Jungle Book"--is a very delightful series of stories of Indian life, and those of our readers who have not yet read them have a great treat in store. "The First Jungle Book" is perhaps the better of the two, and the tale of the little Mongoose Rikki Tikki is so delightful that you can read it again and again with pleasure. DEAR EDITOR: I like THE GREAT ROUND WORLD. Mrs. Mills, my teacher, reads something out of it every morning that she has time. Will you please answer a few questions? Can the prisoners in Sing Sing prison talk together? If not, why not? Can they, after doing their day's work, do work for themselves and keep the money? Yours truly, CARL C. CHEYENNE, WYO., April 5th, 1897. MY DEAR CARL: The prisoners in Sing Sing are not allowed to talk together. This is part of their punishment. Prisoners cannot do work for themselves and keep the money. They used to have certain tasks given to them every day, and when these were done they went back to their cells. Under the present law they stay in their cells all the time, except for a certain period of exercise, when they go round and round the prison yard. EDITOR. ANCIENT GREECE. I have already told you some things about the old Roman Empire, which ran its course long before modern Europe came into existence. Now I am going to tell you about a civilization so much older than that, that it makes the Roman Empire seem like a thing of to-day! The Greeks are the most ancient people in Europe. Their early history, before there were books or written records, has come down to us through legends and tradition; that is, fanciful stories, in which fact and fable are mingled, handed down from generation to generation. These legends tell us that the founders of their nation were not men but gods, who came down from heaven and peopled the land; that the massive architecture (of which there are remains to-day) was the work of these gods, who were the ancestors of the Greek people. But you and I know more about the origin of this people than they themselves did. And the wonderful story has all been found out almost in our own day! Their ancestors did not come from heaven, but from Central Asia. Countless ages ago an Asiatic race, called the Aryans, began to flow westward into Greece. When they came, or why, nobody knows. But come they did, and for centuries like a great sea spread farther and farther into Europe, until at last the continent was covered. And you and I and almost all the people now in Europe are Aryans, and belong to this great Asiatic race.