These four maps give trips to Mt.  Vernon, to Bronx Park, and to New Rochelle, over roads and byways with which the present writer is thoroughly familiar, and the accuracy of these charts cannot be too highly commended.

With such guides as these in hand, a wheelman can make delightful, safe, and speedy trips.

Our young readers would do well to secure copies of The Times supplement, and obtain these excellent maps.

The League of American Wheelmen has very generously decided to let the general public have the benefit of its road books, and they will put them on the market, we understand, as soon as they are published.

    G.H.R.

LETTERS FROM OUR YOUNG FRIENDS.

The Editor takes pleasure in acknowledging the pleasant letters received from Laura Van C. and Theodore S.

THE GREAT ROUND WORLD is always delighted to hear of any good books, and thanks Theodore for his recommendation of “In Mythland” and “Hans Brinker.”

The Editor also wishes to thank Mr. Davis, of Bayonne, for his kind letter, and to tell him that if he will look at No. 3 of THE GREAT ROUND WORLD, page 46, he will find a fuller account of terminal buds, and the rings formed on trees.

It was hoped that the readers of THE GREAT ROUND WORLD would have remembered the previous article on the subject, and therefore the later one was not so explanatory.

Mr. Davis has very kindly sent us an account of the kite represented in our No. 9.  We take great pleasure in publishing his statement.  He says: 

“I will tell you about Mr. William A. Eddy’s kite, or rather about Mr. Hargrave’s, whose invention was the kite represented in your late issue.

“Mr. Lawrence Hargrave, of Australia, began in 1892 some experiments in kite flying.  His first attempt was with cylindrical surfaces.  Not succeeding as well as he had expected, he changed his plans, and in 1893 perfected the kite as represented in your issue.  He sent photographs to the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, where Mr. Eddy saw them.  On his return to Bayonne, Mr. Eddy made several kites from the photographic pattern, and flew them a few days afterward.  These undoubtedly were the first Hargrave kites flown outside of Australia.  This is a powerful kite, but it requires a very strong wind to raise it.

“Mr. Eddy’s kites are of a nearly plane surface, slightly convex in front, and without tails.  His experiments with them are revealing wonderful facts regarding atmospheric electricity.”

    DEAR MR. EDITOR: 

THE GREAT ROUND WORLD is very interesting, I think, when you commence it.  I think as another little girl thinks, that the inventions made nowadays are wonderful; indeed, if I could I would like to talk to the people up in Mars, if there are any to talk to.  My teacher’s name is Miss Davis, and she reads THE GREAT ROUND WORLD to us.

                                   Yours truly,
                                                  LAURA VAN C.
    TROY, OHIO, February 13, 1897.