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    St. Nicholas Magazine was a popular monthly American children's magazine, founded by Scribner's in 1873 and named after the Christian saint. The first...
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    in "The Life of Sir Isaac Newton" by David Brewster and later in St. Nicholas Magazine. In 1816 Walter Scott used the story in the third of his Waverley...
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    Saint Nicholas of Myra (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greek descent from...
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    Hen is an American fable first collected by Mary Mapes Dodge in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1874. The story is meant to teach children the importance of...
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    two-stanza work that is different in wording and form. Another in St Nicholas Magazine for 1881 and ascribed to M. E. Wilkins begins with the words of the...
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    Little Lord Fauntleroy (category Works originally published in St. Nicholas Magazine)
    as a serial in St. Nicholas Magazine from November 1885 to October 1886, then as a book by Scribner's (the publisher of St. Nicholas) in 1886. The illustrations...
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    illustrated by a poem that appeared anonymously in an early issue of St. Nicholas Magazine from 1876: "Oho!" said the pot to the kettle; "You are dirty and...
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    A Little Princess (category Works originally published in St. Nicholas Magazine)
    Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's", which was serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine from December 1887, and published in book form in 1888. According...
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    The Gingerbread Man (category Works originally published in St. Nicholas Magazine)
    Boy" first appeared in print in America in the May 1875, issue of St. Nicholas Magazine in a cumulative tale which, like "The Little Red Hen", depends on...
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    followed by cartoons and illustrations in Scribner’s Monthly and St. Nicholas Magazine. He worked as illustrator at Frank Leslie's Weekly from 1877 to...
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    Mowgli's Brothers (category Works originally published in St. Nicholas Magazine)
    old man . The story first appeared in the January 1894 issue of St. Nicholas Magazine and was collected as the first story in The Jungle Book later in...
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    nineteenth century. Dodge conducted St. Nicholas Magazine for more than 30 years, and it became one of the most successful magazines for children. She was able...
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  • I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (category Works originally published in St. Nicholas Magazine)
    Bells" was first published in February 1865, in Our Young Folks, a juvenile magazine published by Ticknor and Fields. References to the Civil War are prevalent...
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    happiness made quest of the plant by day." In an 1877 letter to StNicholas Magazine, an 11-year-old girl wrote, "Did the fairies ever whisper in your...
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    "A Visit from St. Nicholas", routinely referred to as "The Night Before Christmas" and "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" from its first line, is a poem...
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  • order for fancy dress". St. Nicholas Magazine, Vol. 41, p. 977, September 1914. "Gossip; an endless chain". St. Nicholas Magazine, Vol. 42, p. 508-9, April...
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    Eytinge Jr. and Frank T. Merrill. The magazine was based in Boston. Wide Awake merged with St. Nicholas Magazine in 1893. Daniel Lothrop, founder of the...
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    Pennsylvania. While in high school she sold her first fairy tale to St. Nicholas Magazine to which she continued contributing, along with The Smart Set. In...
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    Edited by W. Gannon, copy available at the Internet Archive, pp.374-6 St Nicholas Magazine' for young folks, January 1884, pp.238-9 The University of Michigan’s...
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    2013-10-25. Kast, Marlise. "Calendar – San Diego Magazine – February 2008 – San Diego, California". San Diego Magazine. Archived from the original on 2011-09-16...
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    Tiger! Tiger! (Kipling short story) (category Works originally published in St. Nicholas Magazine)
    Kipling. A direct sequel to "Mowgli's Brothers", it was published in magazines in 1893–94 before appearing as the third story in The Jungle Book (1894)...
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    painting exactly as he saw them. Another story, recounted in 1912 in St. Nicholas Magazine, says that Raphael was inspired by two children he encountered on...
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    India, St Nicholas Magazine September 1888 Some Asiatic Dogs, St Nicholas Magazine February 1890 African River and Lake Systems, Scribner's Magazine, September...
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    was an American author, editor, poet, and educator who co-founded St. Nicholas Magazine, a publication for children. Earlier in her career, she served as...
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    soul cakes is a universal practice". Mary Mapes Dodge, ed. (1883). St. Nicholas Magazine. Scribner & Company. p. 93. Soul-cakes," which the rich gave to...
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  • Freedom (1927–1931) Royal American Magazine (1774–1775) RUN (1984–1992) Sackbut Review (1978-1981) St. Nicholas Magazine (1873–1943) Samizdat (1998–2004)...
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    editing help), he published the first two stories in 1893 and 1894 in St. Nicholas Magazine. It had earlier published poetry of hers. These stories were collected...
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  • Press, 1952. Bianco, Margery Williams, "The House That Grew Small". St. Nicholas Magazine 58 (September 1931): 764–66, 782–83. Mason, Arthur, From the Horn...
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    in St. Nicholas magazine e.g. his story about his armadillos,(in the book, The Back-Yard Zoo, 1934); more articles about his animals in St. Nicholas, Esquire...
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    Little Women Series. It was first published as a serialized story in St. Nicholas magazine in 1877-1878. It was first published in book form by Roberts Brothers...
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