Literary and Educational Supplemeyit. 



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Rowe, Evangeline, Pacific Beach,Calif. 

 Rowe, Mabel, 



Stockton, Samuel, San Diego, " 



Sprecher, James, " " 



Suits, Rodney, 



Thomas, Fred, ** " 



Thope, Lulo May,Pacific Beach, " 

 Thoustrup, Delia, San Diego, ' 



Thoustrup, Rosa, " " 



Thresher, Marian, Pacific Beach, ' ' 



Townsend Maud, Calico, " 



VanNorman Vernon, San Diego, »■' 



Wagner, Pearl, Pacific Beach, i: 

 Wescott, Maud, 



Wood, Harry, National City, ;< 



Woodford, Kate, San Diego " 



Woods, Eulalie, Pacific Beech " 



Woods, Percival E. " " 



CHILDREN'S LITERATURE. 



Victor Hugo calls this 'the 

 women's century,' and he might 

 have added that it is the children's 

 century as well, for never before the 

 world's history has so much thought 

 been paid to children — their schools, 

 their book, their pictures and their 

 toys. Childhood, as we understand 

 it, is a recent discovery. 



Up to the time of the issue of the 

 St. Nicholas Magazine seventeen 

 years ago literature and children's 

 magazines were almost contradictory 

 terms, but the new periodical started 

 out with the idea that nothing was 

 too good for children; the result has 

 been a juvenile magazine genuine 

 with conscientious purpose — the 

 greatest writers contributing to it, 

 with the best artists and engravers 

 helping to beautify it — and every- 

 thing tuned to the key-note of youth. 



It has been the special aim of St. 

 Nicholas to supplant unhealthy liter- 

 ature with stories of a living and 

 healthful interest. It will not do to 

 take fascinating bad literature out of 

 boys hands and give them in its 

 place Mrs. Barbauld and Peter Par- 



ley, or by the work or writers who 

 think that any 'good-y' talk will do 

 for children, but they must have 

 strong interesting reading, with the 

 blood and sinew of real life in it — 

 reading that will waken them to a 

 closer observation of the best things 

 about them. 



In the seventeen years of its life 

 St. Nicholas has not only elevated the 

 children, but it has also elevated the 

 tone of contemporary children's liter- 

 ature as well. Many ol its stories, 

 like Mrs. Burnett's 'Little Lord 

 Fauntleroy,' have become classic. 

 It is not too much to say that almost 

 every notable young people's story 

 now produced in America first seeks 

 the light in the page of that maga- 

 zine. 



The year 1891 will prove once 

 more that 'no househould where 

 there are children is complete with- 

 out St Nicholas.' J . T. Trowbridge, 

 Noah Brooks, Charles Dudley War- 

 ner and many well-known writers 

 are to contribute during this coming 

 year. One cannot put the spirit of 

 St- Nicholas into a prospectus, but 

 the publishers are glad to send a full 

 announcement of the features for 

 1891 and a single sample copy to the 

 address of any person mentioning 

 this notice. The magazine costs 

 $3.00 a year. Address the Century 

 Co., 33 East 17th St., New York. 



A GREAT 



AMERICAN 

 ZINE. 



MAGA- 



The Century magazine is now 

 so well know that to tell of its past 

 success seems almost an old story. 

 The N. Y. Tribune has said that it 

 and its companion, Si. Nicholas for 

 Young Folks, issued by the same 

 house, 'are read by every one person 



