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N these days of changing literary standards, you are SURE OF ST. NICHOLAS. This "best loved of all magazines,” without being namby-pamby, is as clean as a whistle.

Its first-class fiction, science, history, and poetry
are offered in clearly printed form and are filled with
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This picture, taken from the February

St. Nicholas

is one of the illustrations of a fine story that tells how to make and use bob-sleds.

No art or literature is too good for American children"-a principle ST. NICHOLAS has lived up to since its first number, published in 1873.

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