We know how much our young friends love _true_ stories. This collection
will contain only true stories, and has been written by one who was an
intimate friend, as she says, of each of these interesting creatures.

It has taken several years to collect them, and they are being prepared
and illustrated with the greatest care.

We publish one story as a supplement, and will be very glad if our readers
will let us know if it pleases them.

We are constantly having new books sent in to us. We would like to have
our subscribers read the books, and write us what they think of them.
Letters of this kind will be printed in THE GREAT ROUND WORLD from time to
time. Any of our subscribers who have had a letter about some book
published may become a "reader"--that is, new books will be given them to
read, and write an account of. If the account is well-enough written to be
published, the book may be kept; and others will be sent from time to time
for criticism of this kind.




INVENTION AND DISCOVERY.


Some lover of the wheel, who evidently cannot bear to lose the pleasure of
wheeling even when the snow lies thick on the ground, has invented a
sleigh attachment. This is a runner fastened beneath the driving-wheel of
the bicycle.