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Our Cozy Corner. 
M. A. H: Your solutions for December came to 
hand after we had closed the lists and sent “copy'' 
for February to the publisher; hence, the reason you 
■were not credited in the last number. Your list was 
■an excellent one. Hope you will send more soon 
and that they will reach us in time.— Pearl: Sorry 
we must decline your puzzle. It is too simple and 
is not propprly constructed. Take more time and 
you will do better.— Maude: No one answered No. 4 
■correctly. We received some odd solutions however, 
such as “Dogs-tar (Dogstar), Mice-rabble (Miserable), 
■etc.” It was indeed a poser .—Box 99; That we liked 
your puzzles is proved by inserting one in this num¬ 
ber and accepting the others, which will be sprinkled 
In from time to time. We prefer Numerical where 
no number is repeated. If you solve any puzzles, 
send the answers to us, as we want all the solvers 1 
names we can have, and have them every month — 
Sal'y: We notice that you are still running your 
puzzle column in good style; hope it will prove a 
■success. We introduceJ the title “Our Cozy Corner” 
■and thought we should have the exclusive use of it., 
but it is not copyrighted.— E. F. K The only way to 
know if you can get your poems and sketches pub¬ 
lished, is to send them to an editor; he will use his 
own judgment and will not be influenced by any 
recommendation. What may not please one editor, 
may find favor with another; and rejections are not 
always on account of lack of merit. Editors are 
often too busy to give reasons for declining manu¬ 
scripts, and they prefer to accept than decline.— 
l. N. O .: Your list of solutions was a most excellent 
one. We think one who can solve puzzles so well 
must have the talent to construct some. It would 
give us much pleasure to receive some contributions 
from your pen.— Cassbett: Where have you been 
thfse long months? We have not. received any 
answers from you for so long a time we fear you 
must have been sick; hope that such is not the case. 
F. S. F. 
Note. By an oversight at publication office the 
names of contestants and prize winners for Decem¬ 
ber were omitted from February magazine. The 
prizes for best answers were awarded to Maude and 
John F. Merriam. 
Literary Mention. 
The Popular Science Monthly for March is an 
excellent number and fully sustains the high reputa¬ 
tion achieved by this famous work. Its readers will 
find in it this month many exhaustive articles on 
such topics as, Science in Politics, by Frank W. 
Clarke; Medical Expert Testimony, by Dr. F. H. 
Hamilton. Cholera and Modes of Propagation, by 
Dr. Max Von Petterkofer; Accurate Measurement of 
Time, by Theodore B. Wilson; Parental Foresight of 
Insects; also a fine portrait and sketch of M. De 
Quatrefages. Published by D. Appleton & Co., N. Y., 
at $5.00 per year. 
Godey’s Lady’s Book for March presents some 
very strong attractions. Be.side the steel plate illus¬ 
tration of the story, “Another Alternative,” there is 
a very pretty wood-cut furnished this month, and a 
novel colored work design. A new story by Miss 
Rollston, called "Janie,” opens in this number; 
“Under Gray Skies” progresses toward an interest¬ 
ing climax, and Helen Mather’s “Dreeing of the 
Weird” reaches a satisfactory final. “No motive,” a 
stroRg story, by M. B. Housekeeper, is one of the 
unsuccessful MSS. entered for the prize competition. 
Mrs. V. Sheffey Haller’s laughable charade, “Dining 
Room,” is concluded this month, and several new 
departures are made in the editorial columns. 
Godey’s comes out every month with some fresh 
attraction. One would think that in time its resources 
would be exhausted, but they seem to increase and 
multiply. The latest enterprise of Messrs. J. H. 
Haulenbeek & Co., the publishers, is the award of 
books to every person who secures a new subscriber, 
one book for every subscriber secured. These books 
are all catalogued, and a free choice is allowed. The 
list comprises many of the standard works of the 
best authors. It is truly wonderful that for the small 
price of $2.00 the publishers can afford to furnish 
their magazine for one year, and a book premium, 
costing in the stores from one to two dollars. But 
this is one of the problems which Godky's Lady’s 
Book has solved successfully, and we accept the 
result with complete satisfaction. Subscriptions 
may commence any time. 
St. Nicholas for March opens with a frontispiece 
picture of the “Inauguration of President Garfield,” 
to illustrate this month's installment of “Among the 
Law-makers.” in w hich the boy page tells also of 
General Grant's second inauguration, and compares 
these with the inaugurations of President’s George 
Washington and Thomas Jefferson. This is of 
special and timely interest to all patriotic American 
boys and girls. 
Another attractive series, entitled “The Children 
of the Cold,” is started to take the place of “Davy 
and the Goblin,” who make their farewell bow and 
end their “believing voyage” in this number. The new 
series, while scarcely less wonderful, is quite true, 
and in it Lieut. Schwatka, who has spent several 
years living among the Eskimo in their own homes 
relates the many interesting things he knows about 
child-life in the Arctic Circle. 
E. P. Roe, in the second chapter of “Driven Back 
to Eden,’ 1 tells the entertaining story of how the 
little family of apartment-dwellers journeyed back 
to the garden land, and of their very un-Eden-like 
reception—rendered even more graphic by the nu¬ 
merous characteristic illustrations by Birch and 
W. H. Drake; while- W. A. Rogers successfully per¬ 
forms a similar office for three chapters of J. T. 
Trowbridge’s popular serial, "His Own Fault.” 
Among the shorter stories are: a charming tale by 
Mrs. Julia Schayer, called “Liesel,” telling of a little 
German girl who was befriended by the famous and 
benevolent Prince Poniatowski; “Little Kine,” a 
bright storj r -sketch, by M. C. Griffis, of child-life in 
Japan, in which thete is much that is new r and 
stmnge to us who live on the other side of the w r orld; 
and a clever story by Sophie Swett, with the title, 
“How Santa Claus found the Poor-house”; and there 
are other stories, sketches, and poems by Louise 
Stockton, Celia Thaxter, Malcolm Douglas, and 
others. 
