DEAR NANCY: You will find the latest news about the American sailors in last week's issue of THE GREAT ROUND WORLD. Thank you for your letter. EDITOR. DEAR EDITOR: I am very anxious to know if you can tell me who the Turkish Consul in New York and the United States Consul in Constantinople are, and how to address a letter to each. I read your paper every week, and enjoy it very much. HARRY A.S. DEAR HARRY: The Turkish Consul in New York is Chefik Bey. Address your letter: His Excellency Chefik Bey, Turkish Consulate, 24 State Street, New York. The United States Consul in Constantinople is Mr. Luther Short. Address your letter to him: The Honorable Luther Short, American Consulate, Constantinople, Turkey. EDITOR. DEAR EDITOR: Our teacher reads to us your nice paper, and we like it very much. Will you tell us something more about the Freeville Junior Republic, and what did they do with the insane Empress, Carlotta of Mexico? Your unknown friend, RAYMOND C. CHARLESTOWN, S.C., June 9th, 1897. DEAR RAYMOND: You will find something about the Junior Republic in the next number of the Magazine. About the ex-Empress Carlotta of Mexico, we have no fresh news for you. EDITOR DEAR EDITOR: Our teacher in the Germantown Academy reads to us the paper which you call THE GREAT ROUND WORLD. THE GREAT ROUND WORLD and _Harper's Round Table_ I consider the best papers for boys of which I have any knowledge. I would like to know whether the whale could walk on land, as other animals do. My father told me that the whale was in its former condition a land animal, which had changed its home to the water. Yours respectfully, FRANZ W. GERMANTOWN, PA., June 14th, 1897. DEAR FRANZ: Whales are in many respects the most interesting and wonderful of creatures. It would seem that at one time they may have been land creatures, and able to walk on land as other animals do. That is, however, so very remote that we have no record of it. Scientific men base their arguments in favor of this theory on the facts that whales are not true fish, but are indeed land mammals adapted to living in the water.