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The St. Nicholas anthology /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:St. Nicholas (New York, N.Y.).
Other Authors: Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998 (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [1948-1950]
Subjects:
Children's literature > 20th century.
Children's poetry > 20th century.
Children's stories > 20th century.
Children's literature.
Short stories.
Juvenile works.
Literature.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.