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St. Nicholas (New York, N.Y.). Selections
Contains the "best" of "St. Nicholas", a magazine for boys and girls published at the turn of the century. Includes stories, poems, and original illustrations.
Poem / Montrose J. Moses -- Introduction / by May Lamberton Becker -- Preface / by Henry Steele Commager -- A story about ancestors / Dorothy Canfield ; illustrated by Berger -- The Peterkins celebrate the Fourth of July / Lucretia P. Hale -- The soldiering of Beniah Stidham / Howard Pyle ; illustrated by Howard Pyle -- The griffin and the minor canon / Frank R. Stockton -- Daddy Jake, the runaway / Joel Chandler Harris ; illustrated by E. W. Kemble -- Buffalo hunting / Theodore Roosevelt ; illustrated by Frederic Remington -- How a street-car came in a stocking / Harriet Allen ; illustrated by C. Relyea -- The city child / Alfred Tennyson ; music by Mrs. Alfred Tennyson -- Charles Dickens : the boy of the London streets / Rupert Sargent Holland -- The reef / Samuel Scoville, Jr. -- The Rowena O'Toole Company / Ellis Parker Butler ; illustrated by R. Kirby -- How Santa Claus found the poor-house / Sophie Swett -- Tom Sawyer and his band / Albert Bigelow Paine ; illustrated by E. F. Ward -- King Trisanku / Henry W. Longfellow -- Danny and the "Major" / Gertrude P. Greble ; illustrated by Max F. Klepper -- The professor and the Patagonian giant / Tudor Jenks ; illustrated by E. B. Bensale -- The potted princess / Rudyard Kipling -- The butter Betty bought / Anonymous -- The Brownies' return / Palmer Cox ; illustrated by Palmer Cox -- Leonard's English Christmas / Alice Hegan Rice ; illustrated by Norman Price -- Dream march of the children / James Whitcomb Riley ; illustrated by George Varian -- A little contraband / Charles McIlvaine ; illustrated by Florence Taber -- When Thomas takes his pen / Elsie Hill -- Baby Sylvester / Bret Harte -- The black sheep's coat / Cornelia Meigs -- Billy Mayes' great discovery / Ralph Henry Barbour -- A race with Idaho robbers / Joaquin Miller ; illustrated by Frederic Remington -- Maudie Tom, jockey / Gladys Hasty Carroll -- The little elf / John Kendrick Bangs -- The crew of the captain's gig / Sophie Swett -- Table manners / Gelett Burgess -- Kin to the woods : a story of the Tennessee Cumberlands / Maristan Chapman -- Bass Cove sketches. Young Joe and the ducks ; Off to the island / J. T. Trowbridge -- Flapjack / Carter Hamilton ; illustrated by I. W. Taber -- Keeping house / Laura Ingalls Wilder ; illustrated by Berger -- Pinkey Perkinds : "just a boy" / Captain Harold Hammond, U.S.A. -- A gourd fiddle / Grace MacGowan Cooke ; illustrated by C. T. Hill -- The story of a proverb / Sidney Lanier -- Rumpty-Dudget's tower (a fairy tale) / Julian Hawthorne -- The old lady from Dover / Carolyn Wells -- Illustrations. "Ring a ring o' roses" ; "Bye, Baby Bunting" ; "The little people's market" ; "Rain, rain, go away!" ; "Hark, hark, the dogs do bark!" ; Jack Sprat and his wife ; "There was an old woman lived under a hill" / painted by Arthur Rackham -- Thanksgiving snow-shoes / Ben Ames Williams ; illustrated by Ralph P. Coleman -- The grandiloquent goat / Carolyn Wells -- "Brin" / Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell ; illustrated by George Varian -- Casperl / H. C. Bunner -- Among the buffaloes / Noah Brooks -- The dickey boy / Mary E. Wilkins ; illustrated by G. W. Edwards -- A great speculation / Rossiter Johnson -- A runaway train / F. Lovell Coombs -- Snaggle-Tooth of Sunken Lake / David M. Newell ; illustrated by David M. Newell -- The wrong coat / Rose Terry Cooke -- Richard Carr's baby / Richard H. Davis ; illustrated by W. A. Rogers -- Chronicles of the Molbos / illustrated by F. Beard -- Fo'c'sle and wigwam / Henry Morton Robinson ; illustrated by M. J. Gallagher -- A funny little school / Ruth McEnery Stuart ; illustrated by E. Potthast -- Malschick / Leon W. Dean ; illustrated by Joseph Maturo -- More than conquerors : the torch-bearer of the dark continent / Ariadne Gilbert ; illustrated by O. F. Schmidt -- "As we forgive those" / T. Morris Longstreth -- Where the buffaloes begin / Olaf Baker ; illustrated by Paul Branson -- The crocodile / Oliver Herford -- My grandmother's grandmother's Christmas candle / Hezekiah Butterworth -- To repel boarders / Jack London -- The three brass pennies / Augusta Huiell Seaman ; illustrated by Berger -- Puzzled / Carolyn Wells -- With the Black Prince / William O. Stoddard -- Sara Crewe, or, What happened at Miss Minchin's / Francis Hodgson Burnett ; illustrated by R. Birch -- An old-fashioned Thanksgiving / Louisa May Alcott ; illustrated by E. Bookhout, Sr. -- Grizel Cochrane's ride / Elia W. Peattie -- The crow-child / Mary Mapes Dodge -- The affair of the "Sandpiper" / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -- Freddy Low takes the wheel / Cornelius Brett Boocock -- Not so black as his feathers / Dallas Lore Sharp ; illustrated by R. Bruce Horsfall -- The find / Orville W. Mosher, Jr. ; illustrated by Enos B. Comstock -- The sensitive cat / Alice Brown -- Young Abel Yancey / Archibald Rugledge ; illustrated by George Varian -- Christmas every day / W. D. Howells -- The Major's big-talk stories. Chased by a hoop snake / F. Black Crofton -- A spelling spat / Nancy Boyd Turner.
St. Nicholas League. Friends / E. Vincent Millay (Honor member, age 17) -- The diary of a dragon / Morris G. Bishop (Honor member, age 11) -- My fairy-book prince / Margaret Widdemer (age 16) -- A patriot / Robert Hillyer (age 13) -- In the twilight / Eudora Welty (age 15) -- Mystery / Stephen Vincent Benét (age 15) -- The frozen brook / Stella Benson (age 13) -- Home, to Penelope / Bruce T. Simonds (age 15) -- Vacation song / E. Vincent Millay (age 15) -- The voice of the city : (a symphony) / John C. Farrar (age 17) -- Vacation down south / E. Babette Deutsch (age 11) -- Gratitude / Cornelia Otis Skinner (age 11) -- In June-time / William R. Benet (age 16) -- When swallows build / Corey H. Ford (age 14) -- Where do the fairies meet? / Jessica Nelson North (age 13) -- A winter walk / Rachel Lyman Field (age 16) -- A song of summer / Sterling North (age 8) -- A song of the woods / Stephen Vincent Benét (age 13) -- My favorite character in fiction (illustrated story) / Anne L. Parrish (age 14) -- Four charades / C. P. Cranch -- Eight charades, done up in rhyme, for lad and lass at candle-time / Ralph Henry Barbour.
Riddle box. Cross-word enigma / G. F. Babcock -- Anagram -- Double-acrostic / Elinor Lothrop Daniels -- Connected squares / Florence and Edna -- Diamond / Jennie N. Child -- Illustrated primal acrostic -- An "aged" puzzle / Helen A. Sibley -- Oblique rectangle / George Linwood Hosea -- The magic letters / Maurice P. Dunlap -- M.M.D. / Josephine Daskam Bacon.
edited by Henry Steele Commager, with an introduction by May Lamberton Becker.