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| | Starfish Pie How would you like a piece for Thanksgiving dinner? Sounds sort of queer and seaweedy, does n’t it? Well, that ’s just one of Peter's funny ideas. You really won’t have to eat it. Peter and Polly Ponds are having a strange kind of Thanksgiving Day, are n’t they? Just look at the picture, and then look out of the window |
| and see the gray clouds and the chilly wind whirling the dead leaves around, and maybe a few flakes of snow coming down, That is, unless you have the luck to live in southern California, where Polly and Peter are now. Well to get back to our pie. It was almost hot Thursday morning—it was hot in the sun, and they were taking their morning splash on Coronado Beach. Polly had a lapful of oranges—she never could get enough of them, and in California you just pick ’em off the trees and nobody says “boo!” All of a sudden Peter held up something he'd found in the shallow water. “Oh, Polly,” he cried, “see the starfish! Say, I ’ve got an idea! Let’s have some starfish pie for dinner.” “Peter,” said Polly, “you‘re never thinking of anything but eating. You ought to be ashamed, and, anyway, that ‘s a nasty, horrid idea. Mince-pie ’s the only kind I like on ‘Thanksgiving.” “Well,” replied Peter, “you need n’t be huffy about it. Look at those oranges you 've got. And I was just joking. Let ’s hurry and get back to Aunt Carrie's. I ’m getting as sunburnt as I can be, and I ’m awful hungry.” “Don’t you worry about sunburn,” cried Polly, “here ’s your sample bottle of POND’S EXTRACT Just put some right on, and it won't hurt a bit. I knew you would forget it.” “No, I did n't,” said Peter, “I never forget it. I knew you had it all the time. I would n’t go anywhere without it. It’s the best thing on earth for any kind of burns, cuts, or bumps.” “All right,” answered Polly; “good for you. And hurry up!—I can just smell that turkey now!” If you boys and girls want a sample bottle of Pond’s Extract like Polly and Peter always carry with them, just write to Pond’s Extract Company ||
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| | | Delight the children with a Shetland Pony —an unceasing source of pleasure, a safe and ideal playmate. Makes the child strong and robust. Inexpensive to buy and keep. Highest types here. Complete outfits. Satistaction guaranteed. Write tor illustrated catalogue. BELLE MEADE FARM Box 9Markham, Va. | Delight the children with a Shetland Pony —an unceasing source of pleasure, a safe and ideal playmate. Makes the child strong and robust. Inexpensive to buy and keep. Highest types here. Complete outfits. Satistaction guaranteed. Write tor illustrated catalogue. BELLE MEADE FARM Box 9Markham, Va. | Established 1875 PETS All kinds, and everything for them Send for Catalogue “R” William Bartels Co. 44 Cortlandt St., N. Y. | Established 1875 PETS All kinds, and everything for them Send for Catalogue “R” William Bartels Co. 44 Cortlandt St., N. Y. | Established 1875 PETS All kinds, and everything for them Send for Catalogue “R” William Bartels Co. 44 Cortlandt St., N. Y. | Established 1875 PETS All kinds, and everything for them Send for Catalogue “R” William Bartels Co. 44 Cortlandt St., N. Y. |
| | How much you could do if you had a Shetland or Welsh Pony! What fun it would be to go on errands! Would soon become a necessity. Get a colt and grow up with him. Easy to feed and keep. Means health for the children. Send for our catalogue and show it to Father and Mother. PINE HILL PONY FARM, Medford, Massachusetts. | How much you could do if you had a Shetland or Welsh Pony! What fun it would be to go on errands! Would soon become a necessity. Get a colt and grow up with him. Easy to feed and keep. Means health for the children. Send for our catalogue and show it to Father and Mother. PINE HILL PONY FARM, Medford, Massachusetts. | How much you could do if you had a Shetland or Welsh Pony! What fun it would be to go on errands! Would soon become a necessity. Get a colt and grow up with him. Easy to feed and keep. Means health for the children. Send for our catalogue and show it to Father and Mother. PINE HILL PONY FARM, Medford, Massachusetts. | SHETLAND PONIES of quality. Herd established 1890. Christmas orders given special attention. Our long experience is your guarantee of quality and satisfaction. Our prices are reasonable. Write us your wants. JOEL MALMSBERRY & SON. NORTH BENTON/OHIO | SHETLAND PONIES of quality. Herd established 1890. Christmas orders given special attention. Our long experience is your guarantee of quality and satisfaction. Our prices are reasonable. Write us your wants. JOEL MALMSBERRY & SON. NORTH BENTON/OHIO | SHETLAND PONIES of quality. Herd established 1890. Christmas orders given special attention. Our long experience is your guarantee of quality and satisfaction. Our prices are reasonable. Write us your wants. JOEL MALMSBERRY & SON. NORTH BENTON/OHIO | SHETLAND PONIES of quality. Herd established 1890. Christmas orders given special attention. Our long experience is your guarantee of quality and satisfaction. Our prices are reasonable. Write us your wants. JOEL MALMSBERRY & SON. NORTH BENTON/OHIO |
| SHETLAND PONIES Give your children a pony, the best playmate they can have summer or winter, and the gift they ’ll prize the most. Price list sent on application. PAULINE W. SMITH Sandy HookBox 58Connecticut | SHETLAND PONIES Give your children a pony, the best playmate they can have summer or winter, and the gift they ’ll prize the most. Price list sent on application. PAULINE W. SMITH Sandy HookBox 58Connecticut | SHETLAND PONIES Give your children a pony, the best playmate they can have summer or winter, and the gift they ’ll prize the most. Price list sent on application. PAULINE W. SMITH Sandy HookBox 58Connecticut | SHETLAND PONIES Give your children a pony, the best playmate they can have summer or winter, and the gift they ’ll prize the most. Price list sent on application. PAULINE W. SMITH Sandy HookBox 58Connecticut | HAVE YOU EVER ASKED YOURSELF What breed of dog will make the best companion and playfellow? What kind of a pet is the best for me to keep in the city? Where can I get the name of a dealer whom I know to be reliable? What shall I feed my pets? Let the St. Nicholas Pet Department Answer You. | HAVE YOU EVER ASKED YOURSELF What breed of dog will make the best companion and playfellow? What kind of a pet is the best for me to keep in the city? Where can I get the name of a dealer whom I know to be reliable? What shall I feed my pets? Let the St. Nicholas Pet Department Answer You. | HAVE YOU EVER ASKED YOURSELF What breed of dog will make the best companion and playfellow? What kind of a pet is the best for me to keep in the city? Where can I get the name of a dealer whom I know to be reliable? What shall I feed my pets? Let the St. Nicholas Pet Department Answer You. | HAVE YOU EVER ASKED YOURSELF What breed of dog will make the best companion and playfellow? What kind of a pet is the best for me to keep in the city? Where can I get the name of a dealer whom I know to be reliable? What shall I feed my pets? Let the St. Nicholas Pet Department Answer You. |
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| The PONYCYCLE It Rocks While You Ride Fun and Healthful Exercise for Boys and Girls the year round. Horse has continuous Galloping Motion, affording all the thrills of riding a real pony, is a handsome dapple gray with hair mane and tail, and attractively harnessed. Can be used as Hobby Horse indoors when weather is unfavorable. Made in various styles and sizes for children 2 to 10 years old. Shipped direct to you, express charges prepaid, at factory prices, $5.50 to $9.50. Write for booklet. A.W. Swender Co., 1005 Papin St., St.Louis, U.S.A. ||||
| The PONYCYCLE It Rocks While You Ride Fun and Healthful Exercise for Boys and Girls the year round. Horse has continuous Galloping Motion, affording all the thrills of riding a real pony, is a handsome dapple gray with hair mane and tail, and attractively harnessed. Can be used as Hobby Horse indoors when weather is unfavorable. Made in various styles and sizes for children 2 to 10 years old. Shipped direct to you, express charges prepaid, at factory prices, $5.50 to $9.50. Write for booklet. A.W. Swender Co., 1005 Papin St., St.Louis, U.S.A. ||||
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| We expend time and care in selecting the proper food for the growing body, because we realize that it is a profitable investment, but it is equally important and imperative that the growing mind should have the food which will stimulate its rapid and healthy development, and it is the most profitable investment. Let the children, especially between the ages of five and eighteen, read THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE, and study the wonderful educational pictures, and you will be surprised and delighted with the results. It means a saving of time and money, better work in the school and happier children in the home. 10,000 Wonderful Pictures! 350 Colored Plates THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE will never be surpassed in the value of its educational pictures; pictures of the starry universe, The Sun and His Family of Worlds; pictures of animals, foreign and familiar; pictures of flowers, trees and shrubs; charts and diagrams of our own marvellous bodies; portraits of famous men and women, artists, authors, statesmen and scientists; pictures of our own country and a hundred other countries, showing the cities, the people and their customs; reproductions of beautiful paintings and sculpture; the picture-story of important industries; the whole beautiful, wonderful world is before us in nearly 10,000 pictures, which tell a story or illustrate a fact in a way that can never be forgotten. | We expend time and care in selecting the proper food for the growing body, because we realize that it is a profitable investment, but it is equally important and imperative that the growing mind should have the food which will stimulate its rapid and healthy development, and it is the most profitable investment. Let the children, especially between the ages of five and eighteen, read THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE, and study the wonderful educational pictures, and you will be surprised and delighted with the results. It means a saving of time and money, better work in the school and happier children in the home. 10,000 Wonderful Pictures! 350 Colored Plates THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE will never be surpassed in the value of its educational pictures; pictures of the starry universe, The Sun and His Family of Worlds; pictures of animals, foreign and familiar; pictures of flowers, trees and shrubs; charts and diagrams of our own marvellous bodies; portraits of famous men and women, artists, authors, statesmen and scientists; pictures of our own country and a hundred other countries, showing the cities, the people and their customs; reproductions of beautiful paintings and sculpture; the picture-story of important industries; the whole beautiful, wonderful world is before us in nearly 10,000 pictures, which tell a story or illustrate a fact in a way that can never be forgotten. | These Two Booklets Mailed Free |
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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.
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| A Boy writes to St. Nicholas: “I would like to see good books for boys my age advertised in St. Nicholas. They are very hard to find.” | A Boy writes to St. Nicholas: “I would like to see good books for boys my age advertised in St. Nicholas. They are very hard to find.” | | |
| | Crofton Chums The new book by that prince of American story-tellers, Ralph Henry Barbour, author of “Team-Mates,” “Kingsford, Quarter,” “The Crimson Sweater,” etc. Every lad who read this lively serial in St. Nicholas will want the story in its enlarged form in the book. Most boys and girls think it is quite Ralph Henry Barbour’s best story.}} Sixteen full-page illustrations by Relyea. Price $1.25 net, postage 12 cents. | Crofton Chums The new book by that prince of American story-tellers, Ralph Henry Barbour, author of “Team-Mates,” “Kingsford, Quarter,” “The Crimson Sweater,” etc. Every lad who read this lively serial in St. Nicholas will want the story in its enlarged form in the book. Most boys and girls think it is quite Ralph Henry Barbour’s best story.}} Sixteen full-page illustrations by Relyea. Price $1.25 net, postage 12 cents. | Crofton Chums The new book by that prince of American story-tellers, Ralph Henry Barbour, author of “Team-Mates,” “Kingsford, Quarter,” “The Crimson Sweater,” etc. Every lad who read this lively serial in St. Nicholas will want the story in its enlarged form in the book. Most boys and girls think it is quite Ralph Henry Barbour’s best story.}} Sixteen full-page illustrations by Relyea. Price $1.25 net, postage 12 cents. |
| | The Knights of the Golden Spur Noble adventure, stirringly told, by Rupert Sargent Holland, author of “Historic Boyhoods,” “ Historic Girlhoods,” etc. It is the kind of book in which boys—and the right kind of girls—lose themselves—a different kind of book, based on historic fact and legend, fascinatingly told. Delightful illustrations by Reginald Birch. Price $1.25 net, postage 12 cents. | The Knights of the Golden Spur Noble adventure, stirringly told, by Rupert Sargent Holland, author of “Historic Boyhoods,” “ Historic Girlhoods,” etc. It is the kind of book in which boys—and the right kind of girls—lose themselves—a different kind of book, based on historic fact and legend, fascinatingly told. Delightful illustrations by Reginald Birch. Price $1.25 net, postage 12 cents. | The Knights of the Golden Spur Noble adventure, stirringly told, by Rupert Sargent Holland, author of “Historic Boyhoods,” “ Historic Girlhoods,” etc. It is the kind of book in which boys—and the right kind of girls—lose themselves—a different kind of book, based on historic fact and legend, fascinatingly told. Delightful illustrations by Reginald Birch. Price $1.25 net, postage 12 cents. |
| The Lucky Sixpence A splendid tale for all growing-up young folks—and all grown-ups—who like an exciting story, by Emilie Benson Knipe and Alden Arthur Knipe. There is much actual fact in this out-of-the-ordinary tale; and the authors make the bonny heroine of the story, the historic Americans she meets, and our own Revolutionary history very real and alive with vivid interest. Sixteen full-page illustrations by Becher. Price $1.25 net, postage 12 cents. | The Lucky Sixpence A splendid tale for all growing-up young folks—and all grown-ups—who like an exciting story, by Emilie Benson Knipe and Alden Arthur Knipe. There is much actual fact in this out-of-the-ordinary tale; and the authors make the bonny heroine of the story, the historic Americans she meets, and our own Revolutionary history very real and alive with vivid interest. Sixteen full-page illustrations by Becher. Price $1.25 net, postage 12 cents. | The Lucky Sixpence A splendid tale for all growing-up young folks—and all grown-ups—who like an exciting story, by Emilie Benson Knipe and Alden Arthur Knipe. There is much actual fact in this out-of-the-ordinary tale; and the authors make the bonny heroine of the story, the historic Americans she meets, and our own Revolutionary history very real and alive with vivid interest. Sixteen full-page illustrations by Becher. Price $1.25 net, postage 12 cents. | |
| | | A Girl writes to St. Nicholas: “I would like very much to see published each month in your magazine a list of books which you could recommend.” Try these: |
| Sue Jane A fresh and wholesome story of school-girl good times by Maria T. Daviess, author of “The Melting of Molly,” “Miss Selina Lue,” etc. It is the kind of merry, simple, refreshing tale which young hearts of every age will delight in. Many of the girls and most of the happenings are real, and part of the author’s own school-days. Eight illustrations by Furman. Price $1.25 net, postage 10 cents. ||||
| The Lady of the Lane Another story out of the beaten path, by Frederick Orin Bartlett, author of “The Forest Castaways.” Suppose you tried life under just the conditions of your mother’s girlhood? Elizabeth did—and was far happier in the end than under the restrictions bought by her father’s wealth. It is a happy kind of a story. Sixteen full-page illustrations by Caswell. Price $1.25 net, postage 12 cents. ||||
| Jataka Tales India folk-lore tales, retold by Ellen C. Babbitt. Thirty-six striking pictures in silhouette by Ellsworth Young. ||||
| A book of fascinating jungle lore and primitive folk-tales, adapted from the sacred books of the Buddhists. Animals play a large part in these tales, all of which are flavored by a quaint humor and gentle earnestness. There is always a wholesome moral underlying the story, pleasantly sugar-coated; and all of the tales gathered into this attractive gift-book have the vital interest of ancient fables which have Tales of India endured through many centuries. Price $1.00 net, postage 8 cents. | A book of fascinating jungle lore and primitive folk-tales, adapted from the sacred books of the Buddhists. Animals play a large part in these tales, all of which are flavored by a quaint humor and gentle earnestness. There is always a wholesome moral underlying the story, pleasantly sugar-coated; and all of the tales gathered into this attractive gift-book have the vital interest of ancient fables which have Tales of India endured through many centuries. Price $1.00 net, postage 8 cents. | A book of fascinating jungle lore and primitive folk-tales, adapted from the sacred books of the Buddhists. Animals play a large part in these tales, all of which are flavored by a quaint humor and gentle earnestness. There is always a wholesome moral underlying the story, pleasantly sugar-coated; and all of the tales gathered into this attractive gift-book have the vital interest of ancient fables which have Tales of India endured through many centuries. Price $1.00 net, postage 8 cents. |
For Every Home Reading Table
Why Go to College
By Clayton Sedgwick Cooper, author of “College Men and the Bible,” etc. :
| | Lads in high school and all thoughtful parents will find this a suggestive and helpful book, discussing with sympathy and authority the American college man and the American college of to-day, and their relation to the problem of preparing the young men of our nation for leadership and efficient citizenship. Very attractive illustrations by Henry Raleigh, Thomas Wood Stevens, Katherine B. Merrill, and Helen Stevens. Price $1.50 net, postage 13 cents. |
| Russian Wonder Tales Twelve beautiful pages in color by the famous Russian artist Bilibin. Foreword by Post Wheeler, Litt.D., formerly Secretary of the American Embassy at St. Petersburg. There are, perhaps no wonder tales alive to-day so fascinating as the Russian skazki (skazatz, to tell), the folk tales of all the Russias handed down from generation to generation, told and retold in every home from peasant’s hut to prince’s palace. Romance and adventure go hand in hand, all set forth with that touch of magic which makes such old tales as these ever young. Attractively bound. Price $2.50 net, postage 19 cents. The Wireless Man ||
| | By Francis Arnold Collins, author of “The Boys’ Book of Model Aeroplanes,” “The Second Boys’ Book of Model Aeroplanes,” etc. Every one of the 100,000 boys in America operating their own wireless stations simply must have this book. It is not a technical book, but an entirely new treatment of this fascinating subject —the romance of wireless electricity and a host of true stories of wireless adventure on land and sea, far stranger and more fascinating than any fiction. Many illustrations from drawings and photographs. Price $1.20 net, postage 11 cents. |
* A Grown-up writes to
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* “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
* of Billy-Goat Hill
* “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
* “CQ”
* 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. Price $1.00 net, postage 8 cents. |
* 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.”
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begins with this number another great year and a program that insures happiness and profit to all children fortunate enough to have it for a comrade. The twelve splendid numbers mean untold entertainment, unfailing wholesome and inspiring comradeship, a rich mine of real information.
reading for young people now available. Estimated at its true value as comrade, teacher, and beloved friend, $3.00 a year seems a small sum for insuring its influence and helpfulness in the home. The age of four or five is none too early for beginning a subscription, and at seventeen most readers have no thought of giving up the magazine.
“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!
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.
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.
Every St. Nicholas reader must know several boys and girls who do not take St. Nicholas, but who would enjoy having it just as keenly as you do. The publishers of St. Nicholas want to get the names of as many of these boys and girls as possible, and their parents’ names.
If your name is already on St. Nicholas lists, two months will be added to your subscription.
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St. Nicholas is such a delightful, satisfactory gift—ever so many boys and girls say it is the best gift the year brings them. It really seems like twelve presents in one. Why don’t you give St. Nicholas to your best friend as a Christmas or birthday present? It is not too late to begin subscriptions with the beautiful November number, in which the new stories begin, and a handsome gift card will go with the first number.
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