Show ST XICUOMS for June is a very pleasing pleas-ing number and in It the children will find f pleasure and iustniction In this number Win 31 Baker begins a new story entitled Sheep or Silver It bids j fair to become quite interesting the scene is laid in Texas The story Haydn J I is told in this number and it is delightfully i delight-fully told Of all the great musicians Haydn peihaps more than any other is I the one who most appeals to the heart and makes his music when once heard a part t of our existence It was a happy thought in the proprietors of St Nidwlwf I n to present to its numerous readers these I biographical sketches of the musicians from Bache to Wagner Cannot they give I its readers just such sketches of the poets j from Chaucer to Tennyson It would I lay the foundation for an acquaintance j with English literature that many of the i i readers of St Nicholas can get nowhere i I else The verses A Summers Night I by Alice Boise Wood are worthy of a I place in a magazine of far higher pretensions J < preten-sions than the one in which they are in I sorted Princess Papillones by Alfred I I Trimble is a beautiful little sketch and i the indignant refusal of the Princess to < capture the butterflies very poetic while I I the manner of the Princess death with j one brokenwinged butterfly beside her is touching to sadness The children will II I esting find all the other pieces especially inter i I |