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St. Nicholas for 1905
Publishers’ Preliminary Announcement

“If it were possible to bring a new number of St. Nicholas Magazine, with its wealth of entertainment and instruction, into every home and school-room in the land, every month, it would be a desirable thing to do.”

From a catalog of “A Children’s Library,” selected by the Cleveland Normal School and approved by the Cleveland Public Library, of books for use in the Cleveland Public Schools.

“One incident of my first decade, I recall with mingled respect and envy:. . . ‘Choose,’ commanded my mother, ‘will you have a new dress this winter or St. Nicholas for next year?’ I was stung at the implication that for such as me there could have been a doubt of the choice. St. Nicholas, of course!”

Winifred Kirkland in “The Atlantic Monthly” for September, 1904.

A rare treat is in store for the girl and boy readers of the new volume of St. Nicholas.

The publishers take pleasure in announcing that they have secured as the leading serial for St. Nicholas next year the delightful story of

“Queen Zixi of Ix”

By L. FRANK BAUM
AUTHOR OF “THE WIZARD OF OZ.”

and also of “Father Goose—his Book,” “A New Wonderland,” “The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus,” “The High Ki of Twi,” “The Magical Monarch of Mo,” etc., etc. The hundreds of thousands of American girls and boys who have read Mr. Baum’s other stories and have seen the popular play of “The Wizard of Oz” arc looking forward eagerly to the next product of his magic pen; and they will welcome the announcement that their favorite magazine, St. Nicholas, is to give them Mr. Baum's new story, from month to month, throughout the entire magazine year from November, 1904, to October, 1905. Moreover, this admirable serial marks

A NEW DEPARTURE

for St. Nicholas, as each instalment of the story, “Queen Zixi of Ix,” will be accompanied by numerous

ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR!

Indeed, the illustrating of this story will include, during the year, no less than sixteen full pages beautifully printed in colors, which will be bound in as separate pictures, besides sixty or more colored illustrations in the text.

The story has both a hero and a heroine, a boy and a girl—“King Bud” and “Princess Fluff”—and very wonderful things befall them. And besides the charming “Queen Zixi of Ix” there is a fine array of remarkable characters, including “Aunt Rivette,” the five “High Counselors”: “Tallydab,” “Tellydeb,” “Tillydib,” “Tollydob,” “Tullydub,” “Jikki, the king’s valet,” the fierce “Roly-Rogues,” and others. All the drawings for the serial are by the well-known artist, Mr. Fred Richardson, whose skilful touch has pictured to the author’s complete satisfaction the delightful and grotesque and amusing personages who figure in this charming story of “Queen Zixi of Ix." The very title is unique and alluring, and it foretells a great feast of fun and fancy, in which Mr. Baum’s whimsical imagination is at its best.

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