La Redaktoro.

P.S.--Ni jxus ricevis pruvon de alia nova verketo, "A New Hobby that
may bring you a Living." Gxi estas interesa bonepresata ilo por
disvastigi la lingvon, kaj estas eldonata de "_The Esperanto
Literature Agency_," _Colchester_. La Librarian de la Esperanto Club
(_P. H. Howard, Esq., The Bungalow, Cranes Park, Surbiton_) sendos
gxin je ricevo de 7d.

IN CORRESPONDING, WE LEARN.

The New Year begins. Greeting! May it be happy for all
fellow-thinkers throughout the Esperanto world. And may it be happy
for the prized language itself.

The year 1903 was excellent--possibly the best which Esperanto has
yet seen--but let us trust that the coming year will be even better.

The _Esperanto Club_ also has commenced a new year. All that was
possible with its slender funds the Club has done to spread the
language, and it is wonderful how much a few enthusiasts have been
able to do during some months of ceaseless activity. All Esperantists
and their friends are invited to its Annual Meeting at Essex Hall,
Strand, on January 14th, from 7-10 p.m.

People of every nationality find the propaganda of Esperanto most
pleasurable. Our readers will appreciate the beautiful words of Dr.
Busuttil (Malta), and doubtless it will give equal pleasure to read
the following letter of Dr. Ostrovsky (Yalta, Russia):--

"Esteemed Brethren,--I have just received No. 1 of your Gazette,
The Esperantist. Most hearty congratulations on this new
important means of propagating our dear Esperanto! I know the
international language since 1891, yet up to the present I do not
forget the wonderful impression which Esperanto produced upon me.
It seemed to me as if someone had taken away from before my eyes
some heavy curtain, which prevented my seeing God's world. Esperanto,
as it were, opened before me a wide portal, the entry into a palace
vast and beautiful, where I have ever met many brethren, albeit
unknown, yet very dear to me, whom once I lost and now have found
again. Corresponding with persons of one and another nationality,
my horizon has continued to become wider and wider, and I more and
more have revelled in the great joy of being in this charming
palace, together with its noble denizens. To-day your attractive,
very congenial The Esperantist has once again filled my soul with
a new, true joy. It has, as it were, introduced me into a hitherto
unknown, immense new chamber of that palace, into your estimable
Britain, into