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Publications

St. Nicholas for 1905

reading but to leave your children's reading to chance?

are fortunate in securing this masterpiece from his pen, for the story is the ripest fruit of his fertile fancy and abounding fun, and none of his other stories have had such beautiful and delightful pictures as the amusing and charming drawings in color which Mr. Fred Richardson has made for “Queen Zixi of Ix.”

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WITH SUPERB
ILLUSTRA-
TIONS IN
COLOR

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It was to St. Nicholas that

Tennyson
Longfellow
Aldrich
Bret Harte
Thomas Nelson Page
RichardHardingDavis
Howard Pyle
Mary Mapes Dodge

Bryant
Whittier
Stedman
Mary E. Wilkins
Louisa M. Alcott
George W. Cable
J.T. Trowbridge
Alice Hegan Rice

and many other famous authors contributed their best writings for young readers. In fact,

It was of St. Nicholas that
JOSEPHINE BACON DASKAM

wrote: “Nobody considers himself much of a writer who has not appeared in St. Nicholas. It ‘s a kind of Authors‘ Recommendation. Almost all writers of note have won their spurs there”; and also “When we read the Jungle Stories, we knew we were reading Literature!”

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St. Nicholas

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It was for St. Nicholas that
KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN

wrote “Half-a-dozen Housekeepers” and “Polly Oliver‘s Problem.”

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It is to St. Nicholas that intelligent Americans look for

The Best Stories

The Best Art Work

The Best Amusements

The Best Practical Articles

The Best Biographies

The Best Plays

The Best of Everything

in the line of Young Folks‘ Reading that the World affords.

niture, too—and can decorate its walls. A whole series of articles telling what a boy can do and make is to appear in the magazine during the next year, including papers on “Ice-boats”, “Snow-shoes,” “Skate-sails,” “Skees,” “Camping Outfits,” “Windmills and Power-wheels,” “Tree-houses,” etc., etc.

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FOR BOYS
WHO
“DO THINGS”
COLOR

One of the most admirable and important features of the magazine is the high quality of its illustrations. With its first number St. Nicholas set a new standard in this respect, and no periodical for young readers has ever printed a tithe of the number of beautiful drawings which have appeared in the St. Nicholas volumes. These are drawn, moreover, but the most famous artists of the day, and are engraved and printed with the same care that distinguishes the art of work of the Century Magazine.

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PICTORIAL
ART

During the coming year, moreover, St. Nicholas is to publish a notable series of articles by Charles H. Caffin entitled “How to Study Pictures.” These papers are intended only for the older readers of the magazine, but are very clearly and simply written, and cannot fail to greatly benefit all boys and girls of from twelve to fifteen who are interested in drawing or in gaining information concerning the world‘s great artists and great pictures.

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“HOW TO
STUDY
PICTURES”

The “Nature and Science” department during the coming year will treat not only of nature study, of plant and animal life, but also to a greater extent than heretofore, of other discoveries and items of interest in the whole fascinating realm of science and invention.

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NATURE AND
SCIENCE

The “St. Nicholas League” is an organization to bind St. Nicholas readers in closer personal sympathy, and to encourage and develop literary and artistic talent by means of monthly badges and cash rewards. The League has never been so strong or useful as it is to-day.

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ST. NICHOLAS
LEAGUE

Price $3.00 a Year

Send in your renewals early, so that there may be no break in receipt of numbers. Remit by check, draft, money-order, or express-order. Register cash.

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