St. Nicholas/Volume 41/Number 3

“MOTHER GOOSE.”

PAINTED FOR ST. NICHOLAS BY ARTHUR RACKHAM.

ST. NICHOLAS

Copyright, 1913, by The Century Co. All rights reserved.

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CONTENTS OF ST. NICHOLAS FOR JANUARY, 1914.

Frontispiece. “Mother Goose,” Painted by Arthur Rackham.		page
The Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose.		193
Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Black-on-Blue.	Ralph Henry Barbour	195
Illustrations by W. F. Stecher
Secrets. Verse.	Marjorie Knapp	204
Illustrated by Fanny Y. Cory
The Magic Touch. (Augustus Saint-Gaudens)	Ariadne Gilbert	205
Illustrated by Oscar F. Schmidt
“Not Invited.” Picture. Drawn by Gertrude A. Kay Picture.		214
The Lucky Stone. Verse	Abbie Farwell Brown	215
Illustrated by Reginald Birch
A Letter From Miss Alcott (Louisa M.)		222
Illustrated with photographs and the letter
Christmas Waits at the Rose Alba.	Eveline Warner Brainerd	226
Illustrated by C. M. Relyea
Contrasts.	Caroline Hofman	233
Illustrated by Rachael Robinson Elmer
Jerusalem Artie's Christmas Dinner	Julia Darrow Cowles	234
Illustrated by Horace Taylor
With Men Who Do Things.	A. Russell Bond	237
Illustrated by Edwin F. Bayha
Ballad of Belle Brocade., Verse	Carolyn Wells	244
Illustrated by C. Clyde Squires.
The Runaway	Allen French	246
Illustrated by C. M. Relyea
The Brownies and the Railroad Verse.	Palmer Cox	253
Illustrated by the Author.
Two Men With Brains	Tudor Jenks	256
The Housekeeping Adventures of the Junior Blairs.	Caroline French Benton	257
Illustrated by Sarah K. Smith.
Books and Reading.	Hildegarde Hawthorne	262
For Very Little Folk:
The Baby Bears’ Third Adventure. Verse	Grace G. Drayton	265
Illustrated by the author
Nature and Science for Young Folks. Illustrated		268
The St. Nicholas League. With Awards of Prizes for Stories, Poems, Drawings, Photographs, and Puzzles. Illustrated		276
Letter-Box. Illustrated.		285
The Riddle-Box.		287

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