KETURH TO OALIFORHIA 



ailbl Tou came to CsaLlfoamla right after the 1906 



8«n fi»«iiitii# tir^t ^ie^ was a strange tliae to 

 sasMi* Vhat brottght you out here? 



Cogginss I had been running the magazine for five or six 

 years and it was obrlous that it would xnB-ver be 

 a big thing* I knew at the tii?» that St« Nicholas 

 wasnH making any money; It was a questl^a of time 

 before they would go out of business* 



Glib I Even In spite of their obvious merit? 



Oogglnss Yes, It wasn't profitable* They kept It for 



sstttiBient for a long tliant as long as Mary Hapes 

 Dciifee was allTOt and I think Hr, Charles F. Clarke, 

 her adopted son, carried It on for a tlige« but 

 the Ciiittiry Coi^any finally gave It up* I think 

 St* Hlcholas had a remarkable record ^dien you think 

 cf the books that went through It* Hans Brlnker * 

 yylnee and the Pauper * Little tord Pauntleroy , 

 Juan and Juanlta , Toinette's Philip s which I»ve seen 

 la a movie In the last decade » Ppnald and Dorothy * 

 falser Cox*s Brownies * Joel Chandler Harris, 

 Tudor Jenks. I don't know any publisher that 

 introduced so aany popular books for children* 



