Show = LITERARY REVIEW ST NICHOLAS St Nicholas for May comes to us with its usual charming literary inventory The opening article is an installment of the Historic Girls series by E S Brooks This time Mr Brooks has selected Catarina of Venice the Girl of the Grand Canal the Daughter of the Republic the most famous offspring spring of the House of Canaro the Queen of Cyprus The romantic and pathetic story of the fair Venetian in the woof and web of whose life joy and sorrow light and darkness were so singularly entwined is well told by Mr Brooks This Historic Girls series is very popular popu-lar with the many young readers of St Nicholas and contain much to interest and amuse readers of more mature ageThe The story of the SpanishAmerican children chil-dren Juan and Jaunita by Frances 3 Courtney Baylor is continued and the young people will again feel an absorbing interest in the fortunes of the little wanderers wan-derers and their magnificent dog Amigo James Otis resumes that serial so fascio ting to children Jennys Boarding House and carries the small inmates of the boardinghouse boarding-house through some stirring and pathetic pa-thetic scenes An Only Daughter by Nora Perry is a candidate for youthful favor which must score a success Rose Hawthorne Lathrop contributes Lindas Portrait a pretty pen picture of happy domestic life Winning a Commission by George I Putnam is a tale that should stir the heartsand excite the emulation of all boysHope Hope Howard tells the story of the Dolls Hospitals situated infaraway Saxony The German Fatherland is really the doll country and when mamma mam-ma or grownup sister reads to the little girls of the home fireside what Miss Edwards says of the care taken there of invalid dolls the little ones will laugh with delight HA Rainy Day in Central Park is by Alice Wellington Rollins and shows how good children can enjoy bad weather General Adam Badeau writes the St Nicholas a very readable account of f fe Shermans March to the Sea and the boy who has hankerings after the pomp and circumstance of glorious war will 1 be satisfied The St Nicholas Dog Stories are continued and in this May number various writers talk of various dogs Miss Clara Thaxter tells of Polite Dogs and of a dog that was a Friend in Need Mr Louis Sajat has a tale of a wonderful canine called Twinble to which is prefixed the legend A True Story The announcement announce-ment is not as ominous as it looks however for the story is really interesting Mr M E Bradley has some pleasant rhymes about I a dog evolved from the canine long ago and known to the Nineteenth Century as I Old Dan j Mr E P Roe enlarges upon A Dog That Held a Grudge We did not have time to fully investigate the surly canine particulars given by Mr Roe but we presume the grudge spoken of was I against a bone and doubtless this ill conducted dog fed fat the ancient grudge Mr Palmer Cox has some lines of I meretorious jingle with The Brownies Canoeing for subject and inspiration I and a poetic gem of Frank Dempster I Sherman is entitled May Joel Stacy delights the little folks with a description de-scription in verse of a juvenile Fancy Dress Ball and through the happy I t medium of Jane Ellis Joy April appeals I ap-peals to May in mingled smiles and I tearsMary I L Branch Mary poetically gilds a Positive Engagement and Mr M D Fenner rhymes about the popular theme Fair Weather Miss Mary E Wilkins writes Wanted I A Map a pretty demand in verse for a lithograph of Fairy Land The Hu < jo Hippocamp is a poetical effort ef-fort that can only explain itselfand Birds and Boys by Mary Bradley we are happy to say does not deal with rifled nests and broken eggs A BedTime Song by Lillian Dynover Rice carries with it an apropos soothing melody and will be as much appreciated by parents as it will be admired ad-mired by the children There is a fine Mother Goose illustration illus-tration is which a noble Chanticleer appears ap-pears and Cockadoodledoo awakes the morning echoes for St Nicholas St Nicholas js a treat THE Epoch of April 15th contains anew i a-new story by Julian Hawthorne entitled An 111 Wind Complete in one number num-ber JOSEPH HOWABDS LIFE OF BEECHER Joseph Howard Jrbe widely known journalist and intimate of Henry Ward Beecher for the past fifty years is engaged upon a life of the great preacher and orator which will no doubt be the standard work as Mr Howards intimate relations with Mr Beecher and his justly won popularity as a writer are an assurance assur-ance of a work of peculiar interest and value We learn that the work is to be brought out by Hubbard Bros at an early day and will no doubt be sold by subscription |