have already done
so, and will no doubt soon commence their foreign correspondence,
even if the collecting of picture postcards or postage stamps be the
initial incentive. Several translators have experienced slight
difficulties in their work, which we now take the opportunity of
explaining.

In the first edition of the Textbook the first letter contained the
word "propono." Many were unable to translate this, the meaning of
which is "proposal." "Ekskolonelo" also presented difficulty to many.
The meaning is simply "ex-colonel"!

The more recent letters seem to contain but one point of
difficulty--the wonderful ever-recurring word "samideano" (which was
here put in the feminine through an oversight). We have not yet
discovered an apt translation for this most useful term. One of our
members has put "friend in Esperanto," whereas others describe it as
"kindred spirit" or "fellow-thinker." The literal meaning is of
course "one who shares the same idea as yourself."

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A most interesting letter has come to hand from one of our
enthusiastic members. We here print it at length:--

"Dear Sir,--I am reluctant to encroach upon your time,
but I feel _I must_ write to congratulate you upon the get-up, the
good printing, and the general excellence of your first number. It is
far and away the best Esperanto journal I have seen.

"One of your correspondents, I see, urges that her age (71) precludes
the possibility of her doing much for Esperanto. I hope not. If she
has the same good health as I have, she may have several years before
her yet. I am in my 81st year, and though I have a very busy life, I
take a great delight in our "Kara Lingvo," and can read it with
tolerable ease ... I am puzzled about the sound of "Eux," "Ej," and
"Uj" ... I cannot make out the last line but one on page 9.

Yours, etc.,
E.D.R."

We heartily thank E.D.R. for his interesting and cheering letter.
Certainly we all hope to have plenty of time before us in which to
propagate "La Karan Lingvon."

To deal with the last point first, it was one of the printer's errors
which one must inevitably find in a journal printed in a new
language. "Firmo firinoj" should have been the one word "Firmoj." Our
good colleague, Mr. Ahlberg, is thus fully exculpated from what at
first sight must have seemed to our readers as "very original
Esperanto" on his part. In apologising for the error, we would again
call the attention of our readers to