St. Nicholas/Volume 40/Number 11

By permission of C. W. Faulkner & Co., Ltd., London, Eng., owners of the copyright.

THE LITTLE DOCTOR.

FROM THE PAINTING BY ARTHUR J. ELSLEY.

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 SEPTEMBER, 1913.

Frontispiece. The Little Doctor. From the painting by Arthur J. Elsley.

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Rainbow Colors. Verse.

Mabel Livingston Frank

963

Illustrated by Bruce Horsfall

Bobby and the First Officer.

George Phillips

964

Illustrated by I. W. Taber

Glimpses of Foreign Fire-Brigades. Sketch

Charles T. Hill

972

Illustrated from photographs.

A Pointed Suggestion.	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$
To A Brownie Boy.

Verse

George O. Butler

979

Illustrated by the Author

Beatrice of Denewood. Serial Story

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	Alden Arthur Knipe

981

Illustrated by C. M. Relyea

The Clever Flamingos. Pictures. Drawn by Dewitt Clinton Falls.

988

The Land of Mystery. Serial Story

Cleveland Moffett

990

Illustrated by Philippoteaux, Jules Guérin, R. Talbot Kelly, and from photographs.

Polly in France. Verse.

Rebecca Deming Moore

998

Illustrated by Mabel Betsy Hill.

The Hair-cut Man. Verse.

Melville Chater

998

Illustrated by Gertrude A. Kay.

A Nightmare. Verse.

Anna May Cooper

1000

Illustrated by the Author.

The Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose: A Ten O’Clock Scholar, Poor Old Robinson Crusoe! Dr. Foster Went to Gloucester. Jack be Nimble. Fiddle-de-dee, Fiddle-de-dee.

961, 1001

Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

The London “Zoo.” Sketch

Dorothy Furniss

1002

Illustrated by the Author.

"The World's Series". Verse

C. H. Claudy

1109

Illustrated from photographs.

“The “Freshman Freak.” Story.

Margaret Warde

1083

Illustrated by E. C. Caswell

Garden-Making and Some of the Garden’s Stories. V. The Story of the Enchanted Caskets and Their Invisible Key.

Grace Tabor

1019

Illustrated by Theresa Sturm Rogers, and Frances E. Ingersoll

With Men Who Do Things. Serial

A. Russell Bond

1023

Illustrated by Edwin F. Bayha, and from photographs.

Books and Reading

Hildegarde Hawthorne

1031

For Very Little Folk:

A Summer in a Sea-shore Bungalow. Story

Robert Emmet Ward

1034

Illustrated from photographs.

Nature and Science for Young Folks.

1036

The St. Nicholas League. With Awards of Prizes for Stories, Poems, Drawings, Photographs, and Puzzles. Illustrated

1044

The Letter-Box. Illustrated.

1052

The Riddle-Box.

1055

St. Nicholas Stamp Page

Advertising page

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