TO THE EDITOR:


We wish to extend to you and your friends a cordial invitation
to visit our Republic.

Yours,
THE CITIZENS, per WILLIAM DAPPING.

GEORGE JUNIOR REPUBLIC,
FREEVILLE, N.Y., March 17th, 1897.


DEAR EDITOR:

I enjoy your fascinating little magazine so much that I thought
I would write and tell you so. It has pleased me very much to
find that you encourage kindness to animals, for it is pathetic
to think how they patiently work for us with only bad treatment
as a reward. Do please write more about them, and their
undeserved sufferings. I think that your older subscribers would
like to read "Fabiola," by Cardinal Wiseman. It is a story of
ancient Rome, and the Christians of the catacombs; it is quite
an old book, but is as interesting as any that I have read.

As you are so kind about answering questions, perhaps you could
tell me of some magazine or shop (in New York) where I could
find authentic portraits of historic people, like Catherine de