| Show ST NICHOLAS is a mythical character but the St Nicholas magazine is not and to children it is not merely a reality but a blessing and for its monthly coming they look forward as anxiously as for the coming of a birthday or Christmas If the St Nicholas were to cease there is nothing which could immediately take its place This cannot be said of most things or men and shows that St Nicholas is a superior magazine The aim of this magazine mag-azine is not merely to entertain our children but to educate them There are enough of pleasing stories to relieve I those pieces which are of more solid worth and yet when history or science or travel is put in an attractive form it pleases the child more than anything else for child I rep are ever asking Is it true Si Nicholas is a partial realization of Herbert Her-bert Spencers theory of educating children child-ren and Spencers theory is the generally gener-ally accepted one nowadays The May number is an interesting one though no more so than its predecessors To point out which of its many articles and stories is most to be commended is a difficult task but the two which will interest in-terest those who are not children are The Children of the Cold by Lieut Fred Schwatka and the one on Handel by Agatha Tunis This is almost an injustice in-justice to the other writers assail are excellent ex-cellent Wherever there is a family with children who are beginning to read there St Nicholas should be |
