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St. Nicholas. Index to St. Nicholas a complete comprehensive index and dictionary catalogue to the first 27 volumes of St. Nicholas ; containing 20,000 references arranged analytically, alphabetically and clas:
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Mrs Mary Mates
Dodge,' the editor of St.
foundation in its home at summer her 1871 at the age Onteora Park, Tannersville, N. ork City in of seventy- four. Born in New Professor James J. 1831, the daughter of Nicholas Magazine died
August
since
21, at
Y
scientific
Mapes, the well-known promoter of Dodge farming in the United States, Mrs. atmosphere. spent all her life in a literary drawing She was very talented for music, displayed a and modelling, and also early stones. keen taste for writing children s William While quite young she married after Dodo-e a lawyer, but he died suddenly boys to bring a short time and left her two
Carnegie Corporation ifunb for
instruction in 3Ufcrarian£tf)iP '
up
In her
first
executive position she was
Hearth and Home and came in touch with Harriet Beecher Stowe writers of "Ik Marvel" and other celebrated magazine. She their day who wrote for that was wrote for the periodical and her ability to edit soon recognized, and she was called
associate
editor
of
_
UnSt Nicholas with great public approval. be.ame der her management St. Nicholas great educain many lands and a famous
tional feature in the lives of the
young people
was iuof the last generation. Mrs. Dodge Hans thor of "The Irvington Stones, of its Brinker," the most successful juvenile into Dutch, day, which has been translated
^°5
Ton,
M^S
DonFrench, German, Russian and Italian; and How ald and Dorothv," "A Few Friends
- " and "Theophilus
They Amused themselves good and Others," and she did almost equally
on "Rhymes and Jingles, Mrs. and "Baby World." Dodge also wrote for grown people and has One contributed to all our best magazines. contribof her immensely popular sketches Malony uted to Scribner's in 1870 was "Mrs. on the Chinese Question," which was used
editor's
"Baby .
work
Days"
Atlantic to for recitation for years from the strictly to the Pacific. Mrs. Dodge attended work until within a few months. Her name was a household word among the children for
many, many years.
