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,