St. Nicholas/Volume 32/Number 1

With Colored Illustrations——Begins in this Number

SṬ NICHOLAS

FOR - YOUNG - FOLKS

CONDUCTED BY

MARY - MAPES - DODGE

MACMILLAN AND Co - L’T’D, ST. MARTIN’S ST - LONDON

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COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY THE CENTURY CO. ENTERED AT THE POST-OFFICE AT NEW YORK AS SECOND-CLASS MAIL MATTER.

Weaving the Magic Cloak.

ST. NICHOLAS

(The entire contents of this Magazine are covered by the general copyright, and articles must not be reprinted without special permission.)

CONTENTS OF ST. NICHOLAS FOR NOVEMBER, 1904.

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Frontispiece. Weaving the Magic Cloak Drawn by Fred Richardson.
Queen Zixi of Ix or, The Story of the Magic Cloak. Serial Story.	L. Frank Baum	1
Illustrated by Fred Richardson.
Picture. “I Wonder Who the Forty-seventh Person Will Be!” Drawn by Ethel A. Jackson		9
Picture. The “Blue Ribbon Girl” Picture by C. M. Relyea		10
A Goal From the Field. Story	Leslie W. Quirk	11
Illustrated by C. M. Relyea.
Picture. Eleven Promising Candidates. Picture drawn by S. B. Pearse		16
The Little Brother of Loo-lee Loo. Verse.	Margaret Johnson	17
Illustrated by Jessie McD. Walcott.
The Last Little Bird. Story.	Ella S. Sargent	22
Illustrated by Olive Rush.
How to Study Pictures. Serial	Charles H. Caffin	23
Illustrated from photographs.
Little X. Story	Winifred Kirkland	32
Illustrated by Ida Dougherty
A Roman Boy's Birthday. Story	Bertha E. Bush	38
Illustrated by George Varian
The Better Part of Valor. Verse	Carolyn Wells	41
Illustrations by John R. Shaver.
The Practical Boy. Serial	Joseph H. Adams	42
Illustrated by the Author.
When Mother Reads Aloud. Verse	Hannah G. Fernald	52
Illustrated by Urquhart Wilcox
The Order of the Smiling Face Verse	Lucy Foster	53
Papa’s Way of Spelling. Verse	Ida L. McIntosh	53
A Composition on an Apple. Story	H. B. M. Tasker	54
Illustrated by Willard Bonte.
Picture “What Ho, There!”		56
Drawn by Lester Ralph
Three Rhyme and Picture Pages.	Lucy Fitch Perkins	57
Kibun Daizen. Serial Story	Gensai Murai	60
Illustrated by George Varian.
The Début of “Dan’l Webster.” Story	Isabel Gordon Curtis	63
Illustrated by George Varian.
The Child in the Glass. Verse	Mary Sigsbee Kerr	70
Illustrated by the Author.
In the First Reader. Verse.	Malcolm Douglas	71
Illustrated by Alice Sargent.
The Day After Thanksgiving. Picture, drawn by John Richards.		71
Nature and Science for Young Folks. Illustrated		72
The Giant Fishes of the Sea—How Insects Breathe—Feathers of Wounded Doves—Upper and Lower Sides of a Leaf—A “Lizard” in the Ground—The Beauty and Interest of Weeds—Weeds in the West—The Weeds of the Fields. Illustrated.
The St. Nicholas League. With Awards of Prizes for Stories, Poems, Drawings, Photographs, and Puzzles. Illustrated		80
Books and Reading		92
A Youthful Critic—“Snowed Under”—A Boy Makes His Own Bookplate—Another Correspondent—Books That Are Not Yet Familiar—English History—“On the Fly.”
Editorial Notes		94
Picture A Foot-ball Scrimmage		94
Drawn by Gertrude Farrington
The Riddle-Box. Illustrated.		95

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