SCHUYLERSVILLE, NEW YORK.

I want to write a note to tell you how I came to take _Young People_.

One evening papa brought me the first two numbers, and I enjoyed the "Swiss Boy" and the other stories so much that I thought I would like to take it. So my papa, my mamma, my two brothers, and I myself gave something toward it, and I shall expect it with pleasure every week.

KEBLE D.

GALENA, ILLINOIS.

I like _Harper's Young People_ very much. The ill.u.s.trations are beautiful, and the Post-office Box and all the other reading very interesting. I read all the letters in the Post-office, and contribute this, my first newspaper correspondence, to that department. The picture "The Day Before Thanksgiving," on the first page of No. 4, is very comical, and reminds me of things I have seen myself. I am twelve years old.

MORNA P.

SOUTH EVANSTON, ILLINOIS.

I am so glad you have published this little paper. I think it is the best thing I have ever seen. Papa reads it too, and thinks it is real nice for little folks. I like the story of the "Brave Swiss Boy" very much.

EFFIE T.

WORCESTER, Ma.s.sACHUSETTS.

DEAR "YOUNG PEOPLE,"--I like you very much, especially the story of the "Brave Swiss Boy." The way I came to take you was this: father saw an advertis.e.m.e.nt in a paper, so he let me go up to a newsroom and get you.

ROBIE D. C.

HENRY F. B.--Electric ornaments are not easily obtained in this country, as but very few have been imported for sale.

MONTAGUE L.--It would occupy too much s.p.a.ce to describe the game you require.

A. H. A.--There is no such cla.s.s of people as you refer to. Exceptional cases may exist.

KATE S. (nine years).--Your puzzles are very neat for such a little girl to compose.

MARTHA W. D.--Your puzzle is good, but we are afraid our young readers would never make it out, as it requires an extraordinary amount of geographical knowledge.

"ENQUIRER," MADISON.--A phonograph must be obtained of Thomas A. Edison, Menlo Park, New Jersey, from whom you can also obtain a price-list. You will find interesting information in a book ent.i.tled _The Telephone, the Microphone, and the Phonograph_, by Count Du Moncel, recently published by Messrs. Harper and Brothers.

Pleasant and welcome letters are acknowledged from Abraham L. M., Alie M. B., and Julien S. U.

F. B. H.--Thanks for your pretty operation in figures.

The following explanation of the name irreverently applied to the Bank of England is from Harry H. Bell, Louisville, Kentucky:

The Bank of England was founded in 1694. There is no bank equal to it in the management of national finances. It is located in Threadneedle Street. Cobbett called it "The Old Lady in Threadneedle Street," because, said he, the governors of the bank were, like old Mrs. Partington, an invented character of Sydney Smith's, trying with their broom to keep back the Atlantic waves of progress in national affairs.

[Ill.u.s.tration: NEW-YEAR'S CALLS.]

"Ladies, allow me to introduce my friend Bowyer Bender, Esq. You see he is in _full_ dress"