The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-03-17
A GREAT UNIVERSITY
BY ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FIREsIDRs,

a man of letters, whose name we do
not feel free to use without permission,
writes about the current volume of st.
Nicholas, as follows:
never until now believed in the real
existence of that much-talked about
youth who bore, mid snow and ice.
banner with this strange device,
Excelsior"
You see, the poet does not give his
name and place of residence, and thh
lack of particulars about so admirable
fellow is suspicious. But / have found
him now, and his name is st. Nicholas
the only young fellow ever knew who
kept on getting better and better all the
time. This volume of ST. Nicholas is
about the best of all, and the March num-
Der especially is. as the girls say. 'just
lovely" 1 am growing gray, and am old
enough to have grandchild at my knees
reciting jingles from st. Nicholas, but
am not too old to appreciate such poems
as the exquisite ballad of "Brier Rose"
by Mr.. Boyesen, in recent number.
This piece ought to have place in all
future collections of naAtru for children.
Neither am L too old to laugh over the
wonderful inventions of Phaton Rogers
and his friends, and the ''poems" of Jim
my the Rhymer, nor too far gone in life
to enjoy the pretty verses signed Bessie
Hill. All my boyish interest in natural
history and adventure is re-awakened by
such articles as those called "In Natures
Wonderland" and "The Giant Squid."
But the March number is the climax,
How charmingly good lessons are taught
in "Mary Jane Describes Herseif," and
rabbits and Bank Paper" The ''Mon-
key and his Company" and "Consisten-
cy" are irresistibly jolly Gas is "The Mil
Ter of Dee," in the December number),
When l was boy, used to hear women
in the country stores higgling to get the
merchant to ''throw in" something "to
make the bargain good" BY the plan
of giving extracts from great writers, as
well as by the instructions of Jack-in-the-
Pulpit, and of many other articles, st.
Nicholas "throws in" great deal of
schooling along with the happiness it
gives. The "Stories of Art and Artists"
the "Recollections of Young Prima
Donna, and all such articles, give infor-
nation as important as that contained in
the multiplication table. And when the
coming race of Americans shall be famous
for their love of art and good literature,
the prigs who write history will talk about
rr---------1 Ualloelar, - -
anu Jonuo nOtri.s, t'nu forget the III
fuence of that great university that ST.
Nicholas keeps by hundred thousand
fresides.
a friend of mine. going through the
streets of the venerable and autiquated
Yorktown, in Virginia, felt himself grow
ing old, and took off his hat, demanding
OF gentleman whom he met if he saw
any gray hairs in his head. But the sto-
ries, poems, and pictures in st. Nicholas,
running over as they do with brightness
and vivacity, make on old man young
again. feel as though l should ike to
go right off and try those new modes of
fishing described by Mr.. Beard, especial
ly 'jugging for cats" and that neat little
electric experiment which Mr. thinner
man calls "The Magic Dance. If poor
old Juan Ponce de Leon, VIXEN he went
wandering over America three hundred
years ago, seeking for the tabled foun-
tain that made old men grow young again,
could only have found stray copy of st.
Nicholas, who knows but that he might
have laid him down by the side OF some
pleasant river, to read its lively pages and
rejoice in its jolly pictures. until all the
wrinkles had disappeared from bis age
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