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St. Nicholas for 1905
A third serial of decided importance, is a series of articles entitled
“HOW TO STUDY PICTURES”
Not only by his books and lectures, but also by frequent contributions on art-subjects to the daily press and art-periodicals, Mr. Caffin is well known as one of America’s leading art-critics. But nothing he has yet written can excel, in interest and value to the general reader, his series of admirable papers in which he adopts the plan of contrasting, in each article, the work of some great artist with that of another equally great master—showing a single picture painted by each, and pointing out the likenesses and the differences between the two pictures and the methods of the two painters. Young folk can learn more about art and artists through this careful and detailed way of looking “here upon this picture, and on this”—than by whole volumes of generalizing. A set of beautiful copies of the pictures selected by Mr. Caffin from the world’s masterpieces, has been prepared especially for St. Nicholas, and will appear with the articles in the magazine. Each month, the pictures contrasted will be printed on opposite pages. American girls and boys (and their parents as well) should not fail to read every one of these novel and important papers.
| Some of the humor of a father’s attempt to purchase wearing apparel for his little girl is told in
“LUCY’S SHOPPING” Lucy and her father are at their wits’ end to do their shopping with the limited means at their command. Lucy has a startling experience which, however, results in a very satisfactory ending to the story. Another “school-story,” of a very different sort, “HOW PINKY GOT EVEN” for a more amusing tale has not been written since “Tom Sawyer” was penned. Indeed, it is worthy of Mark Twain himself in its portraiture of the character and discomfiture of “Pinky” and his mischievous and very boy-like “revenge.”
“THE FOX WHO KNEW a writer who evidently “knows all about foxes.” |
“THE TRIUMPH OF is a rattling good hockey story that is scheduled to appear before the winter is over. Boys who are fond of ice sports will enjoy this. “THE SQUARENESS OF
NEIL MORRIS” will probably arouse a lively discussion in every family that reads it, but “both sides” will be sure to agree that the story is a very clever and a very wholesome one, and boy readers will ask themselves if they could or would have done what Neil did under the same peculiar circumstances.
An important and valuable contribution is “HOW A LAW IS MADE” the well-known Washington correspondent. The author declares that he does not believe there are a thousand persons in the United States, besides legislators, who could describe the progress of a bill from its introduction until it becomes a law of the land. And after the publication of this article, the young readers of St. Nicholas, at least, will possess a full knowledge of how the laws of the country are made. |
