St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5

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St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5

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Title: St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 No 1, Nov 1877
Author: Various
Editor: Mary Mapes Dodge
Release Date: January 14, 2006 [EBook #17513]
Language: English
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ST. NICHOLAS:
SCRIBNER'S ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE
FOR GIRLS AND BOYS,
CONDUCTED BY
MARY MAPES DODGE.
VOLUME V.
NOVEMBER, 1877, TO NOVEMBER, 1878.
SCRIBNER & CO., NEW YORK.

Copyright by SCRIBNER & CO., 1878.
PRESS OF FRANCIS HART & CO.
NEW YORK

CONTENTS.
Child-Queen, A. (Illustrated by Alfred Fredericks) Cecilia Cleveland 1
Chased by Wolves. (Illustrated) George Dudley Lawson 3
Jingle: There was an Old Person of Crewd. (Illustrated by K. W. P.) 6
Mollie's Boyhood. (Illustrated by George White) Sarah E. Chester 7
*The Largest Volcano in the World. (Illustrated) Sarah Coan 13
Making it Skip. Verse. (Illustrated by Thomas Moran) M. M. D. 15
*Willow Wand, The. Poem. (Illustrated) A. E. W. 16
*Story that Wouldn't be Told, The. (Illustrated) Louise Stockton 18
Polly: A Before-Christmas Story. (Illustrated) Hope Ledyard 19
Boggs's Photograph. Picture. 21
Lord Mayor of London's Show, The. (Illustrated) Jennie A. Owen 22
My Girl. Poem. John S. Adams 25
Mars, the Planet of War. (Illustrated by the Author) Richard A. Proctor 26
*Domestic Tragedy, A. In Two Parts (Illustration) 31
Bell-Ringers, The Stickleback. (Illustrated by James C. Beard) C. F. Holder 31
Cricket on the Hearth, The. Poem. (Illustrated )Clara Doty Bates 33
How I Weighed the Thanksgiving Turkey. G. M. Shaw 34
Nimble Jim and the Magic Melon. (Illustrated by E. B. Bensell) J. A. Judson 34
"Oh, I'm My Mamma's Lady-Girl." Verse. (Illustrated by Addie Ledyard) M. M. D. 41
Christmas-Gifts, A Budget of Home-Made. (Illustrated) 42
*Little Tweet. (Illustrated)? 64
*Jack-in-the-Pulpit. (Illustrated) 66
Can a Little Child Like Me? (Thanksgiving Hymn) Mary Mapes Dodge 68
"Baby's Opera" and Walter Crane, The. 69
*The Letter Box. 69
*The Moons of Mars. 69
*The Riddle Box. (Illustrated) 71

[Transcriber's Notes: For ease of navigation, this Table of Contents has been taken from the full contents listing for the volume. Some entries were missing from the index. For completeness they have been added and marked with an asterisk.
The full list of contents for Volume V is to be found at the end of this text.
p. 27: changed 'rains' to 'trains': ...--; just like the lines by which trains are made to run easily off one track on to another.
p. 30: Missing opening quote replaced: "The snows that glittered on the disc of Mars..."
p. 31:' replaced with ": "Don't you think, papa, that that's enough about the sun? Come and play with us on the lawn."
p. 59: Missing ) replaced, ...(widening the strip, however, in proportion as the fabric is thinner).
Music Notation (Our Music Page) has been added.]
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[Illustration: KING RICHARD II. AND HIS CHILD-QUEEN.]
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ST. NICHOLAS.
VOL. V. NOVEMBER, 1877. No. 1.
[Copyright, 1877, by Scribner & Co.]
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A CHILD QUEEN.
BY CECILIA CLEVELAND.
I wonder how many of the little girl readers of ST. NICHOLAS are fond of history? If they answer candidly, I do not doubt that a very large proportion will declare that they prefer the charming stories they find in ST. NICHOLAS to the dull pages of history, with its countless battles and murdered sovereigns. But history is not every bit dull, by any means, as you will find if your elder sisters and friends will select portions for you to read that are suitable to your age and interests. Perhaps you are very imaginative, and prefer fairy tales to all others. I am sure, then, that you will like the story I am about to tell you, of a little French princess, who was married and crowned Queen of England when only eight years old, and who became a widow at twelve.
This child-sovereign was born many hundred years ago--in 1387--at the palace of the Louvre in Paris, of whose noble picture-gallery I am sure you all have heard,--if, indeed, many of you have not seen it yourselves. She was the daughter of the poor King Charles VI., whose misfortunes made him insane, and for whose amusement playing-cards were invented, and of his queen, Isabeau of Bavaria, a beautiful but very wicked woman. Little Princess Isabella was the eldest of twelve children. She inherited her mother's beauty, and was petted by her parents and the entire court of France.
King Richard II. of England, who was a widower about thirty years old, was urged to marry again; and, instead of selecting a wife near his