The New Volume Of St. Nieholas

St. Xicholas, condiicte.d by IVÏrs. Miiry Mapes Bodge, enteis npon the tweirtytifth yeaï of its successtul career as tlie ièading magazine for boys aud girla with its November issue. A remarkable varied and attractive list of features has been secured for tlie coming year, including contribiitionB by several of the formost writers of the day. Etudyard Kipling's first '-Jungle Stories" were riten for St. Nicholas, and this year he will contribute a new series of stories to the magazine, called "The Just-So-Stories," written in a new vain- fantastic stories. Some stories, Mr. Kipling says, are nieaut to be read quietly, and some are ineaut to be told aloud. Some are lor rainy morniugs and some for long, hot afternoons, aud some are for bedtinie. These stories of Mr. Kipling's are nieaut to be told 'just-so," and oue inust not alter one single word. They are stories about animáis, queer, very queer animáis. Mr. Frank R. Stockton will contribute 'The Buccaneers oí Our Coast." This ís a series of narrative sketches in which will be treated the origiu, characleristics, adventures, and exploits of that wild body of sea-rovers, calling themselves"TheBrethrenof the Coast' who during the greater part of the seventeeuth century ravaged and almost ruled the waters and shores of the "West Indies. Mr. S. T. Trowbridge has written a a serial, "l'wo Biddicut Boys, aud Their Adventures With a Wonderíul Trick Dog." This is marked by his best qualities and is full of efl'ective interest. A lively story of track and field is "The Lakerim Athletic Club," by Rupert Hughes, whicli will teil of a year oí sports carried out by a party of -'real boys." Mr. W. O. Stoddard writes a stirring romance of chivalry, "With the Black Prince," telling of the fortunes and adventures of au English hul who fights at the b.xttle of Crecy. Afairtale of science "Through the Earth," by Clement Fezandie, is a serial of the Jules Verne order. It tells of the daring conception of a scientist of the next ceutury, who by the euorniously increased power of electricity suceeds in boring a hole through the earth and sending a boy in a cigar-shaped car through the tunnel. There will be the usual number of articles of instruction and entertainment short stories, poems and jingles, as well as hundreds of pictures by leading art; ists. The price of St. Kicholas ín 5 cents a copy, or $3.00 a year.