I really cannot think how to commence this letter. Oh! I want to tell you that I found thirty-seven misspelled words in the funny queer piece about babies. I hope none of them are mine. Once I made up some poetry; it is not very good, but I will write it to you. Here it is: /* Many an Indian man Intruded upon the colonial land. But they never tried to massacre The little people of Alaska. */ I am very much interested in Nettie Decker, and, for that matter, in every story that there is in THE PANSY. /* Good-by, MAY FINNEY. */ * * * * * /* DEAR PANSY: */ I have taken your magazine for nearly two years. I like it very much. Ever since I began reading the letters, I have thought how I should like to join your band. Now I am going to, although I am afraid you will find me a weedy Pansy. I mean to try and pull out every weed. I have so many faults, I do not know which of them I need to overcome the worst. One of them is not to go right away when mamma calls, but to wait till I forget it. How I should like to hear from you real often! But I know you have so many Pansies to write to, I will try to be real patient. Mamma likes to read THE PANSY as well as I do. We are reading the New Testament together. Every morning when I get up, I take a verse from the Bible to live by, during the day. One verse I try to live by, is: “For even Christ pleased not himself.” /* Your loving friend, STELLA GRAHAM. */ ====== [Illustration: right index] Until further notice, the address of Mrs. G. R. Alden will be Winter Park, Orange Co., Florida. ILLUSTRATED GIFT BOOKS. IDEAL LITERATURE AND ART; IN RICH AND ORIGINAL BINDINGS. IDYLS AND PASTORALS. _Edition de luxe._ This splendid folio is a sumptuous home gallery of poetry and art. The text consists of twenty-four original poems by Celia Thaxter, written expressly for this volume. The poems are accompanied by twenty-four beautiful photogravures by eminent artists here and abroad, including Kate Greenaway, Howard Pyle, W. T. Smedley, Edmund H. Garrett, F. Childe Hassam, Jessie Curtis Shepherd, Miss L. B. Humphrey, W. L. Taylor, Joseph Pennell, Thomas Hovenden, F. H. Lungren, T. W. Wood, N. A., Charles Volkmar, Hy. Sandham, F. T. Merrill, Henry Bacon. The photogravures are printed by hand, in colors, no two of the same tone, on the finest imported India paper, the text paper and the backing of the India being the best American plate paper, made expressly for this volume. Very handsomely bound in vellum cloth with design in two metals, gilt top, rough edges, price, $15.00. In white calf, embossed in imitation of antique carved ivory, price, $25.00. YOUTH IN TWELVE CENTURIES.