Wroton M. Kenney.—There is no better book for the reading of an intelligent lad who wants to know how his country is governed than Politics for Young Americans, by Charles Nordhoff, published by Harper & Brothers. The price is 75 cents.
Jennie and Julia.—It is difficult to assign you subjects for compositions when we do not know your grade of advancement. If you wish to excel, read good books, choose easy topics, about which you know something, and write as though you were telling a story to a child or talking to your friends.
Correct answers to puzzles have been received from "Parton," Theresa Morro, C. Burr, Alfred R. Meeker, "North Star," "Unknown," Flora A., "Dandy," "Lodestar," Annie Gail, Wroton M. Kenney, G. Volckhausen, "Venus," Abel Foster, "Jersey City," William Wolff, Jessie Newton, J. H. Jenny.
PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.
No. 1.
PYRAMID.
Across.—1. A letter. 2. Jurisprudence. 3. Surfeited. 4. That which fades from view.