Such letters as the one which follows are received with peculiar pleasure by the publishers of YOUNG PEOPLE:
Though HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE is intended for that class of persons only, yet I trust it will not be unseemly for one of "older growth" to give expression to the entertainment and instruction derived from its pages. My interest, from the issue of the first number, continues as zealous as that of any boy or girl who anxiously awaits the coming chapters of "Mr. Stubbs's Brother." Not only are its serials intensely interesting, but each issue imparts also much useful knowledge. No greater or better source of instruction and amusement can be introduced in the family circle.
Wishing you continued success in this pioneer of children's literature.
I want to tell you how much pleasure I get from your paper. I am twelve years old, and live on a homestead. I have no brother nor sister. I go two miles to Sunday-school, and papa teaches me at home. I help papa on the claim, picket the stock and water them twice a day, seven head of them. I shoot with a rifle or shot-gun, and kill plenty of duck, but have not hit a wolf or antelope yet. If the buffalo were as plenty as their bones are, I would have a splendid time.
I like all the articles in our YOUNG PEOPLE, but don't know how to wait for the continued stories. Sometimes I get more circus than Toby Tyler does. I ride the old cow or an ox, have a dog that understands a good deal of English, and like to work with my papa.
I will send agates or petrifactions, for 2 ounces of maple-seeds, or beech-nuts, or basswood-seeds, or for 1 ounce of barberry-seeds. Seeds to be sound, and fit for planting. I want a few pine-seeds, for minerals.
I ought to say that my HARPER's is a Christmas present, and it makes my Christmas last one year.
DANNIE D. SHARP. Olivet, Hutchinson Co., Dakota.
I am a little boy ten years old. I have a very little pony, about the size of a sheep, and it is perfectly white. I also have a kitten and squirrels. I have three brothers, and this summer they have all gone to Europe. My brother John has left me his pug Scamp to take care of, and that brother has given me HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE for my Christmas gift ever since it began. I have been sick, and I can hardly wait to hear the stories.