Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-01
PERIODICALS.

ST. NICHOLAs.-We have received
the bound volumes of s.. choias,
volume Z in two parts, containing the
monthly editions from November
1879 to 1880. 1t contains four frontis-
pieces GRANDMOTHER, Little Louis
the Dauphin, Alloy, Lads! Ah-oy!'
and Sir Christopher Wren. I'll Wood
Engraving, and 1000 Octave Pages.
Heretofore st. Nicholas has been
bound In one volume, but the pub
fishers added so much reading matter
during the last year that they were
compelled to bind In two volumes.
To give our readers an idea how S..
Nicholas is appreciated, We can Tot do
better than copy what a celebrated
doctor of divinity has to say about 1t.
He says:
know cultivated young ladies :" no
ha :, read st. Nicholas from childhcod,
AID who have not OutgGown IL, but
watch for its monthly visits WITH
eagerness and know bright child
Of two years whose chief joy liz life is a
bound volume OF this magazine. She
either knows the name and story con-
nected with each picture, OF she makes
one, out of her own fertile imagination.
"Bugapoo Bill" Red Ridsnghoou
and the Wolf,"-especiaiiy the WOLF
| and the poor little girl crying, whose
tears she wipes. are her favorlies and
night after night she Is lullsd to sleep
by "Hippity-hoppity-ho ~ and Phi
likin Willikin,' TWO of st. Nicholas
songs. It seems to me that the most
masterful thing about the conduct o1
| the magazine is its perfect comprehen
siveness-its suitability to the tas tes o
the big child and the little, the active
boy and the girl of tender sympat1ie:
its rare combination of delightsome'
ness with substantial instruction anC
culture. What perfect serials are these
Jack and JILL" and The Fairpor
Nine" by Louisa Nj. Alcot and II oat
young folks in the werld! How de-
liGhtful are the short series, the fair,
tales, the wonder stories, the funn.
and courage, the bits o! romanti
biography, the stories of dogs ans
other animals!
What endless interest there Is II
Jack-in.th e- Pulpit, the Letter.box
the riddles, and more t4an all, in tn
pictures, where q child's imagination
is pleased in thousand ways. and hi
fancy tickled by art in It's playful
moods! Did you ever consider VIVA
an educator simple happiness is for
child-how pleasure of this refine
sort permeates the whole moral ns
] ture, and acts like sunshine on
flower bed, making good things gro'
and bloom? Then, too, the imagins
ton, 80 much neglected in school edu
ton, il quickened and trained to G
the highest service in after life; an
!, the taste-the love OF beautiful an
} noble thinge--is ehsrmingly develope
) by the poetry, the tales, and the ri,
!. tures. But there is no fancy untoucf
ed By st. Nicholas it is like Froebel
/. kindergarten-.it reaches and move
81 the whole intellectual nature. How
regret that in my boyhood l did NJ
i have, for instance, this delightft
article of Colonel Norson's: "Ho'
to Rig and Sail Small Bosts;;" or M
| Boards blow to Camp OUT" or the
+ papers about animal life, such
"1he Darning Needle" and Prair
SQUIRRELS =, or these articl
Il that throw a charming light in
. the life of other lands. B
& what miracles these pictures won
have seemed In the days when | por'
D over the Customs and Costumes
Q the World" trying to find out som
thing about foreign countries! y
who were born In those benight'
q times must rest content with our i
sufficient early training; but it is 6
j. moot criminal to let boy or girl
4 to-day grow up without the culture,
- say nothing Of the happiness, To
II comes from the pages of 81. Nichol.
n hich attains almost, IL not quite.
= the ideal excellence of q juvenile ma
10 aZine.
e With the exception Of Mise Alec
d serial story Jack and JILL" each
20 the two parts is complete in itse
Previous volumes of ST. Methodist
"a twelve months bound together--ct
ar 81 90: the present volume cells
. $3.50 for each part, $500 comple te;
d. that the bound volumes may now
y, had at $3.50, $500, or $5.0O--to suit
buyers. Address,
ne SCRlBNER & Co,
New York