A NEW DEPARTMENT IN ST NICHOLAS 



Nature and Science for Young Folks 



IT IS FOUND OHLY ^^^^SmF IM ST. NICHOLAS 



FOR GIRLS AND BOYS 



For many years the editor of this new department in 

 St. Nicholas Magazine, " Nature and Science," has been 

 accompanied by young folks in parties, from a few to two 

 hundred and fifty, on natural history excursions along the 

 roadsides, across the fields, through the forests, and in the 

 meadows and swamps. This past year alone he has taken about 

 4.500 girls and boys on tramps aggregating over 175 miles. 



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It is of great interest to the readers ever pertains to nature and outdoor 



of this magazine that during the year life by prominent students and lovers 



igoi the department of Nature and of nature. The young folks enjoy this 



Science in St. Nicholas will contain department because it is edited from 



short articles, beautifully illustrated, their standpoint, by one who sympa- 



telling of four-footed animals, birds, thizes with their way of enjoying na- 



insects, waler-animals, plants and what- ture and profiting by her instructions. 



The editor of " Nature and Science " delights in the company of children, 

 and loves their questions. Fortunately he is able to answer most of them, or 

 to give the young people clues which bring their own answers. And now in 

 St. Nicholas he is helping thousands of children. 



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ST. NICHOLAS FOR 1901 



St. Nicholas is the only high-class magazine for boys and girls in the world. Its life of 

 nearly thirty years has been a continual growth in everything that is good. A new volume 

 begins with November, 1900, and it will have a program unsurpassed by any in the history of 

 St. Nicholas. 



THE ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE 



The St. Nicholas League offers prizes each month for the best drawings, photographs, 

 poems, stories, puzzles and puzzle answers. There are no League dues. 



The price of ST. NICHOLAS is $3.00 a year, and new subscriptions should begin with the 

 November number. 



