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(The entire contents of this Magazine are covered by the general copyright, and articles must not be reprinted without special permission.)
CONTENTS OF ST. NICHOLAS FOR NOVEMBER, 1912.
Frontispiece. The Sisters. From a painting by Lydia Field Emmet. | page | |||||
The Land of Mystery. Serial Story | Cleveland Moffett | 3 | ||||
Illustrated by J. Paleologue, and from photogaphs | ||||||
What Woodrow Wilson did for American Foot-ball. Sketch | Parke H. Davis | 13 | ||||
Illustrated by Oscar F. Schmidt, and by photographs | ||||||
A Rhyme of Hallowe’en. Verse | George O. Butler | 20 | ||||
Beatrice of Denewood. Serial Story |
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Illustrated by C. M. Relyea | ||||||
Trials of Science. Verse. (Illustrated by the Author) | C. F. Lester | 29 | ||||
A Royal Release Verse. | J. G. Francis | 30 | ||||
(Illustrated by the Author) | ||||||
“A Dutch Treat.” | Giulia Hossfeld. | 31 | ||||
Illustrated by Oscar F. Schmidt. | ||||||
My Girl. Verse. | Pauline Frances Camp | 36 | ||||
His Highness the Young Raja. Sketch | Mabel Alberta Spicer | 37 | ||||
Illustrated from photographs. | ||||||
How Babe Escaped Polo. Story. | Izola Forrester | 43 | ||||
Illustrated by I. W. Taber | ||||||
Across the Atlantic by Wireless. Sketch. | Francis Arnold Collins | 46 | ||||
Illustrated by George Varian and from photographs. | ||||||
“Whom the King Delighteth to Honor.” | John K. Cree | 51 | ||||
Illustrated by Reginald Birch | ||||||
The Marathon. Verse. | Fred Jacob | 52 | ||||
Illustrated by C. F. Peters | ||||||
The Brownies in the Grist-Mill. | Palmer Cox | 36 | ||||
Illustrated by the Author | ||||||
The First Thanksgiving Day. A Play. | Agnes Miller | 61 | ||||
Illustrated by ) | ||||||
On Days of Storm. Verse. | Margaret Johnson | 64 | ||||
“Calling.” Picture, Drawn by Gertrude Kay | 65 | |||||
“Sheltie” —the Children’s Friend. | Flora Macdonald | 66 | ||||
Illustrated from photographs. | ||||||
Pumpkin Time. Verse. | Edith Mallery | 70 | ||||
Illustrated by Theresa Sturm Rogers | ||||||
“When I’ve Been Bad.” Verse. | Anna May Cooper | 71 | ||||
Illustrated by the Author. | ||||||
Nature and Science for Young Folks. | 72 | |||||
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For Very Little Folk: | ||||||
His Birthdays. | Isobel Lyndall | 80 | ||||
Illustrated by the Author. | ||||||
The St. Nicholas League. With Awards of Prizes for Stories, Poems, Drawings, Photographs, and Puzzles. | 84 | |||||
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Books and Reading | Hildegarde Hawthorne | 92 | ||||
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The Riddle-Box. | 95 | |||||
St. Nicholas Stamp Page | Advertising page | 36 |
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In the United States and Canada, the price of The St. Nicholas Magazine is $3.00 a year in advance, or 25 cents a single copy, without discount or extra inducement of any kind. Foreign postage is 60 cents extra when subscribers abroad with the magazine mailed directly from New York to them. We request that remittance be by money order, bank check, draft, or registered letter. The Century Co. reserves the right to suspend any subscription taken contrary to its selling terms and to refund the unexpired credit.
The half-yearly parts of St. Nicholas end with the October and April numbers respectively, and the red cloth covers are ready with the issue of these numbers; price 50 cents, by mail, postpaid: the two covers for the complete volume, $1.00. We bind and furnish covers for 75 cents per part, or $1.50 for the complete volume. (Carriage extra.) In sending the numbers to us, they should be distinctly marked with the owner's name. Bound volumes are not exchanged for numbers. PUBLISHED MONTHLY.
IRA H. BRAINERD,
GEORGE INNESS, Jr.
Trustees
Union Square, New York, N. Y.
FRANK H> SCOTT, President
WILLIAM W. ELLSWORTH, Vice-President and Secretary
DONALD SCOTT, Treasurer
Best All Christmas Numbers Coming Next | |||
We’ve made it early so you can enjoy it the longer | More interesting and beautiful than any issue you’ve seen | ||
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A great story by Baum, who wrote “The Wizard of Oz.”
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Conquerors who were more than Conquerors.
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The Great Arthur Rackham’s pictures of Mother Goose.
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Fine new competitions, verses, puzzles and fun.
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Christmas Stories, and Great Excitement in The Serials.
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Distinguished Men Talk with St. Nicholas Boys.
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Hosts of Other Pictures for Everybody.
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Surprising Adventures of Billy Bowline.
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A Fascinating Present For All Boys and Girls |
⁋ These boys and girls have hurried up to see what is on the St. Nicholas Bulletin. Presently they will go away and tell their friends about the treats in St. Nicholas, and their friends will ask their parents to subscribe. ⁋ Do you tell your friends how much you like St. Nicholas? ⁋ Remember that our Bulletin tells only a little of what you can count on getting in future numbers. Hosts of clever, valuable things that you can’t afford to miss will appear every month. ⁋ Three dollars a year. The Century Co., Union Square, New York.
St. Nicholas Pet Department Announcements of reliable advertisers only are accepted. The Department will gladly give advice to all those interested in pets. Address “PET DEPARTMENT,” St. Nicholas, Union Square, New York.
The Greatest Gift to Growing Minds
Answers Every Question a Child Can Ask
15 Great Departments of Knowledge
The Book of Knowledge
The Children’s Encyclopedia
Simplicity is the Secret. It is a great achievement to arrange the important and essential knowledge of the world in such a comprehensive scheme, and tell it in such simple language that the mind of a child might not only grasp it, but enjoy it and remember it. It is this simplicity of style and statement, coupled with sound learning, which is the secret of the success and usefulness of THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE, not only to children, but also to adults, especially those who have not been able to complete their training in the schools and colleges.
President John H. Finley of the College of the City of New York, in his introduction, says: “Suppose a boy of ten were to spend fifteen minutes a day in reading these pages.. . . he would at thirteen know more about the earth and the life on it than the wisest men knew a few generations ago.”The Most Profitable Investment
FRIENDSHIP with The Century means familiarity with all the best in American art to-day and acquaintance with the choicest work of foreign artists. It means that liberal education in modern art which every wise parent values for the growing-up son and daughter. Other features of very special interest in the new volume of The Century:
THE CENTURY’S After-the-War Series
will tell the story of those events since the Civil War which have been important factors in our national life. The articles are being written by distinguished editors throughout the country, men who were part of the events and conditions they picture. This is history of living interest to young people who would be well informed. Some of the contributors to this series, and their subjects, are given on these pages.
Travel with Robert Hichens
through Dalmatia and Greece in the pages of The Century during 1913. Robert Hichens’s brilliant pen, Jules Guérin’s wonderful brush, will make the people and scenes of this unfamiliar land marvelously alive for readers of The Century.
A New Story by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Do you remember “Little Lord Fauntleroy” and “Sarah Crewe” and “The Secret Garden”? Then you will want to read this new story by this writer of magic pen who has never grown up. It is to be The Century’s serial novel during 1913, and is to “be called “T. Tembarom.” It is a story of New York and English rural life.
The Story of Secret Writing
Every one has heard how when governments want to send secret orders to their ambassadors abroad, they use a cipher which is a combination of words or figures that no one can read unless he is in the secret. Hundreds of years ago, the Greeks sent such messages by swift runners. Now they flash over telegraph and cable wires. The November Century’s story of how nations have invented ingenious means of secret writing is a fascinating one; and it is interestingly told by John H. Haswell.
Is The Century coming regularly into your home? If not, a copy of the beautiful and interesting November number will be sent free, on request, to any St. Nicholas subscriber. Address: 'THE CENTURY CO., Union Square, New York.
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A Grown-up writes to St. Nicholas: “I should like to see advertised in your pages the right kind of books for young folks who are out-growing ‘juveniles.’” Try these: Alice Hegan Rice’s New Book A Romance |
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“Lady” is the heroine, a gay little rose set with thorns at first. Everybody loves her, and with good reason. The thorns disappear; but “Lady” never grows up; and Mrs. Rice’s telling of her romance is exquisite. The quaint humor of “Mrs. Wiggs” is in the book, too.
Illustrations by Wright. Price $1.25 net, postage 12 cents. | |
Arthur Train’s Clever Story of Wireless A light, sparkling tale of happenings on a big ocean liner, with the Wireless holding out hands to all the world, and bringing both disaster and happiness to the people of this floating world. “Micky” is a jolly chap to know. Clever pictures by Crosby. Price $1.20 net, postage 12 cents. | |
Jack London’s Great New Book Smoke Bellew A new world is opened through the pages of this book. Jack London pictures, as no one else can, the frozen wilds and the physical suffering of the Klondike, the allurement of its ice-bound treasure, a strong man’s delight in the elemental things of life; and this big, splendid story of Smoke Bellew is Jack London’s very best. Pictures by Monahan. Price $1.30 net, postage 12 cents. | |
Jean Webster’s Charming New Story Daddy-Long-Legs Judy is an electric bundle of spicy originality, and oh, how she does enjoy life! In its whimsical originality and charm the book is a fit companion to “ Molly Make-Believe.” The author drew the illustrations as she went along—they are delicious. | |
Frances Little’s sequel to “The Lady of the Decoration” The Lady and Sada San The story of “the Lady” and Jack and the romance of an exquisite Japanese—American girl, with all the fresh humor and witchery of that great success in the book publishing world, “The Lady of the Decoration.” Lovely frontispiece in color. Price $1.00 net, postage 6 cents. |
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“The St. Nicholas is a monthly magazine or book, for it is more of a book than anything else. It has a low price and a high quality. It contains continued stories and many others. It has prize contests every month. Verses and pictures for smaller children. I like the St. Nicholas because it has good reading and plenty of it. There is enough to last from one month to the next unless you read day and night, which a person feels like doing. The St. Nicholas contains things to work for. It has the St. Nicholas League and it gives badges to every member. Boys and girls all over the United States take St. Nicholas. It is a good Christmas gift. I got it for Christmas.
Arthur V. H.
, Texas.
Arthur and all the other readers of St. Nicholas will find the numbers during 1913 even more fascinating than those of 1912. There will be—
More stories, more articles, more pictures, more rhymes
More delightful competitions in prose, verse, drawing, and photography
More splendid articles full of new ideas
Turn to the next page and see!
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ARTHUR RACKHAM
is a famous English artist who makes wonderful pictures. He has drawn some marvelous pictures—most of them in lovely color—of the best-known Mother Goose characters and rhymes. There have never been such fascinating Mother Goose pictures. They are to appear in the new volume of St. Nicholas.
THE LAND OF MYSTERY
It is an alluring title, is n’t it? And every boy and girl who reads the thrilling chapters of Mr. Cleveland Moffett’s story in this number will want to follow the adventures of his likable American hero through the year. Mr. Moffett is just back from a long trip in Egypt, and he really saw the strange mystery chamber of which he tells in this number. Is the story true? Write to Mr. Moffett, in care of St. Nicholas, and ask him.
ANOTHER STORY OF ADVENTURE
Perhaps you have already read the first chapters of “Beatrice of Denewood” in this number—probably you have. The fascinating scenes of “The Lucky Sixpence” were real, not imaginary. Emilie Benson Knipe when a child actually played in the secret room which enters so largely into the plot of the story; and the later adventures of bonny Beatrice promise to be even more keenly interesting than those of the earlier story.
MORE THAN CONQUERORS
There is the wholesome inspiration in these articles which every growing-up boy and girl needs. In them Miss Ariadne Gilbert shows how Phillips Brooks, and Lincoln, Scott, and Thackeray, and other famous men came to splendid success only after overcoming obstacles and handicaps which would have daunted weaker spirits.
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WITH MEN WHO DO THINGS
will be the title of a series of articles telling how two fortunate boys saw something of the wonderful constructive engineering enterprises now under way in and around New York: “Five Hundred Feet Above Broadway,” “One Hundred Feet Below Broadway,” “A Dive through the River-Bed,” “Spinning a Web Across the River,” “Quenching a City’s Thirst,” “Cars that Travel Skyward.” A. Russell Bond is the author of these articles, the man who has written that splendid series of books, “The Scientific American Boy.”
CHARMING ANIMAL STORIES
By Charles G. D. Roberts, one of the most delightful of all writers on Nature subjects, will tell young readers of St. Nicholas this year of “Teddy-Bear’s Bee Tree,” “The Little Furry Ones That Slide Down Hill,” and of many other quaint animal folk. The stories will be attractively illustrated, of course.
TO ADD TO THE JOY
of the younger readers of St. Nicholas during 1913, there will be more of Palmer Cox’s jolly Brownies.
L. FRANK BAUM
the popular author of the popular “Oz” stories, has written one of his very best tales in “Aunt Phroney’s Boy,” which will be one of the good things in the Christmas St. Nicholas.
THE ADVENTURES OF BILLY BOWLINE
is the kind of magical story which all the family reads and rereads. Fanny Y. Cory has made charming pictures for this charming story. Watch for it in the Christmas number.
WHY, OF COURSE
this is only the beginning of the good things coming in the new volume of the St. Nicholas.
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