Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 2nd August 1880, Edition 1 of 1, Page 580

Quarto , in Handsome Cover , Monthly , price Is . The St . Nicholas Magazine , Its Special Contents Feat , and ures the are Beauty , the Gre and at Profuseness Variety and of Interest its Illustrations of its Literary . It is an immense sueeess in America , and is equally appreciated in this country , wherever introduced . The Illustrations surpass anything yet attempted in any publication for Young People , and the Stories are by the Best living Authors of Juvenile Literature . Each Part contains , on an average , Fifty Illustrations , SOME OPINIONS OF THE ENGLISH PRESS . JOHN BULL says :-J— i "With each month it establishes more and more firmly its place as the Magazine for Girls and Boys . . . . Those who have young folks for whose amusement they are in duty bound to cater should I g acquaintance ive St . Nichoias with him a trial , they ; and are when not likel they y to have give once him made up so long as there is a youthful reader left in the family / The EXAMINEE says : — ' Both engravings and text are of such excellent quality that , if the generality of juvenile books in this country could be supplanted by it , the next generation would do much towards removing the charge of bad taste in matters of art which is so justly brought against the masses of the English people . We find in St . Nicholas contributions from the most renowned pens—from Longfellow , Bryant , Carroll , Alcott , and Winthrop , illustrated with a delicacy and richness of colour rarely to be met with in any children ' s books here , and never in any of the children ' s magazines . The sketch and portrait of Miss Alcott are especially interesting . ' The INQUIKER says : — ' Do any of our readers want to know a good Magazine for their young folk ?—one that they can put unhesitatingly into the hands of children able to read to themselves ? If so , we recommend them to try St . Nicholas , which is the American Magazine for the young . We have before us the numbers for November and December , the former commencing a new volume , and , as our American friends would say , they are real fine . Naturally , some of the authors who contribute are unknown to us , but we fancy we have heard before of B . A . Proctor , Lewis Carroll , H . W . Longfellow , William Cullen Bryant , Gail Hamilton , and Miss Alcott . Mr . George Macdonald , too , is a promised contributor . The illustrations , of which there are plenty , are well done ; the paper is good , the printing is clear ; the cover is neat ; and the whole tone of the magazine is excellent . I We know of no magazine of the kind in this country equal to it . ' The COUBT CIRCULAR says : — ' St . Nicholas , which is Scribner ' s illustrated magazine for girls and boys , is one of the best works of the class . It is filled with pretty historical anecdotes , comic stories and verses , charmingly illustrated , and numberless directions for different sorts of fancy work and manufacture adapted to the capacity of the very young / its * execution Oan be highly and recommended the character , both of the for articles the excellence , tales , and of « * Admirably No praise could got up . be '—Nonconformist exaggerated in . speaking of tola en S Thls 2 :. children £ / , r ' , s ra magazine Oh » oniglb needs - but ^ K to x become ^ known _ in t pients charming of this monthly wonderful . The magazine children who are are indeed the happy a favoured reoiagreeable ^ SL « This J ° mak excellent monthly « ? fo periodical guest ™« Fto than /— . 8 Dim . t . . We Nicholas p Sheffield BE don T *™ 't . ' know 1 *^ Post 11 a - . more ceive race . improvement The pictures possible are Derby perfect in Mbbciubt any ; indeed department , December , we / cannot 12 . concan originality No It English any is , English without magazine The magazine doubt stories can , unequalled equal have approach it a in freshness in it illustrations every in real and department humour piquancy , neither of . standard contents 'In evei seldom are 7 of respect a equalled high an class in admirable magazines , and Liverpool the illustrations serial / . Courier Its reach literary . a not found in any other Derby child ' s Mercury magazine , / November 21 . 'It probably stands foremost ' in its Bath class Ohboniolb of literature . / London : SAMPSON LOW , MARSTON , SEARLE , & RIVINGTON , Crown Buildings , 188 Fleet Street , ] E . C . ( 303 )

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