St. Nicholas/Volume 32/Number 12

The October Number

SṬ NICHOLAS

FOR - YOUNG - FOLKS

CONDUCTED BY

MARY - MAPES - DODGE

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

THE - CENTURY - CO - UNION - SQUARE - NEW - YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY THE CENTURY CO. ENTERED AT THE POST-OFFICE AT NEW YORK AS SECOND-CLASS MAIL MATTER.

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 OCTOBER, 1905.

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Frontispiece. Portrait of Mary Mapes Dodge
In Memory of Mary Mapes Dodge	William Fayal Clarke	1059
Illustrated.
M. M. D.	R. W. Gilder	1071
M. M. D.	Josephine Daskam Bacon	1071
Picture Autumn—and Springtime.		1072
Drawn by Charles C. Curran
Queen Zixi of Ix. Serial Story.	L. Frank Baum	1073
Illustrated by Fred Richardson.
The Little Good Samaritan and the Tall, Tall Loaf. Story	Meredith Nugent	1081
Illustrated by the author.
The Gunners. Verse.	C. McCormack Rogers	1083
Illustrated by the author.
Pinkey Perkins: Just a Boy. How Pinkey Treated the Public. Serial Story	Captain Harold Hammond, U.S.A.	1084
Illustrated by George Varian.
Gunda. Sketch. Illustrated from photographs.	Helen D. van Eaton	1090
The Baby Moon. Verse.	Anna H. Branch	1093
Illustrated by George Varian.
How to Study Pictures. Comparing Whistler with Sargent	Charles H. Caffin	1094
Illustrated from photographs.
Picture. “Dear me, but a mother is burdened with cares!”		1098
Drawn by Mme. Ronner
If I Were Queen. Verse. Illustrated by the author.	Lucy Fitch Perkins	1099
A Little Talk about the Big Panama Canal. Sketch. Diagrams by the author.	Walter Kenyon	1100
A Nature-Lesson. Verse.	Carolyn Wells	1102
Illustrated by Oliver Herford.
Picture. An Unfair Advantage		1103
Drawn by F. Warde Blaisdell
First Aid to the Injured. VI. Wounds and Hemorrhages	Dr. E. E. Walker	1103
Totsi and the Cherry-bough. Verse.	Margaret Johnson	1105
Illustrated by Jessie McD. Wolcott.
Buttons and Button-holes. Story.	Ruth Kimball Gardiner	1110
Illustrated by C. M. Relyea.
The Practical Boy. Serial. Twelfth Paper. Electrical Apparatus	Joseph H. Adams	1113
Illustrated by the Author.
Jeremi and Josephine. Verse.	Laura E. Richards	1121
Picture. An October Day in the Fields.		1121
Drawn by Walter Stone
After Burgoyne’s Surrender. Sketch	Klyda Richardson Steege	1122
Illustrated from photographs.
A Children’s Celebration of Hallowe’en. Story.	Isabel Gordon Curtis	1124
Illustrated from photographs.
Picture. A Hallowe’en Procession		1121
Drawn by S. B. Pearse
Nature and Science for Young Folks. Illustrated		1128
Illustrated.
The St. Nicholas League. With Awards of Prizes		1136
Illustrated.
Books and Reading		1148
The Letter-Box.		1150
The Riddle-Box.		1151

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