Originally published: New York : Random House, 1948-1950.

Story about ancestors / Dorothy Canfield -- Peterkins celebrate the Fourth of July / Lucretia P. Hale -- Soldiering of Beniah Stidham / How ard Pyle -- Griffin and the minor canon / Frank R. Stockton -- Daddy Ja ke, the runaway / Joel Chandler Harris -- Buffalo hunting / Theodore Ro osevelt -- How a street-car came in a stocking / Harriet Allen -- City child / Alfred Tennyson -- Charles Dickens: the boy of the London stree ts / Rupert Sargent Holland -- Reef / Samuel Scoville, Jr. -- Rowena O' Toole Company / Ellis Parker Butler -- How Santa Claus found the poor-h ouse / Sophie Swett -- Tom Sawyer and his band / Albert Bigelow Paine - - Trial in Tom Belcher's store / Samuel A. Derieux -- King Trisanku / H enry W. Longfellow -- Danny and the "Major" / Gertrude P. Greble -- Pro fessor and the Patagonian giant / Tudor Jenks -- Potted princess / Rudy ard Kipling -- Butter Betty bought / Anonymous -- Brownies' return / Pa lmer Cox -- Leonard's English Christmas / Alice Hegan Rice -- Dream mar ch of the children / James Whitcomb Riley -- Little contraband / Charle s McIlvaine -- When Thomas takes his pen / Elsie Hill -- Baby Sylvester / Bret Harte -- Black sheep's coat / Cornelia Meigs -- Billy Mayes' gr eat discovery / Ralph Henry Barbour -- Race with Idaho robbers / Joaqui n Miller -- Maudie Tom, jockey / Gladys Hasty Carroll -- Little elf / J ohn Kendrick Bangs -- Crew of the captain's gig / Sophie Swett -- Table manners / Gelett Burgess -- Kin to the word / Maristan Chapman -- Base Cove sketches / J.T. Trowbridge -- Flapjack / Carter Hamilton -- Keepi ng house / Laura Ingalls Wilder -- Pinkey Perkins: "Just a boy" / Capta in Harold Hammond, U.S.A. -- Gourd fiddle / Grace MacGowan Cooke -- Sto ry of a proverb / Sidney Lanier -- Rumpty-Dumpty's tower (A fairy tale) / Julian Hawthorne -- Old lady from Dover / Carolyn Wells --

Illustrations: "Ring a ring o' roses," "Bye, Baby Bunting," "Little people's market," Rain, rain, go away!" Hark, hark, the dogs do bark!" Jack Sprat and his wife, "There was an old woman who lived under a hill " / Arthur Rackham -- Thanksgiving snow-shoes / Ben Ames Williams -- Gr andiloquent goat / Carolyn Wells -- "Brin" / Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell -- Casperl / H.C. Bunner -- Among the buffaloes / Noah Brooks -- Dickey b oy / Mary E. Wilkins -- Great speculation / Rossiter Johnson -- Runaway train / F. Lovell Coombs -- Snaggle-tooth of Sunken Lake / David M. Ne well -- Wrong coat / Rose Terry Cooke -- Richard Carr's baby / Richard H. Davis -- Chronicles of the Molbos -- Fo'c'sle and wigwam / Henry Mor ton Robinson -- Funny little school / Ruth McInery Stuart -- Malschick / Leon W. Dean -- More than conquerors / Ariadne Gilbert -- "As we forg ive those" / T. Morris Longstreth -- Where the buffaloes begin / Olaf B aker -- Crocodile / Oliver Herford -- My grandmother's grandmother's Ch ristmas candle / Hezekiah Butterworth -- To repel boarders / Jack Londo n -- Three brass pennies / Augusta Huiell Seaman -- Puzzled / Carolyn W ells -- With the black prince / William O. Stoddard -- Sara Crewe; or, What happened at Miss Minchin's / Francis Hodgson Burnett -- Old-fashio ned Thanksgiving / Louisa M. Alcott -- Grizel Cochrane's ride / Elia W. Peattie -- Crow-child / Mary Mapes Dodge -- Affair of the "Sandpiper" / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -- Freddy Low takes the wheel / Cornelius Bre tt Boocock -- Not so black as his feathers / Dallas Lore Sharp -- Find / Orville W. Mosher, Jr. -- Sensitive cat / Alice Brown -- Young Abel Y ancey / Archibald Rutledge -- Christmas every day / W.D. Howells -- Maj or's big-talk stories / F. Blake Crofton -- Spelling spat / Nancy Byrd Turner -- Friends / E. Vincent Millay -- Diary of a dragon / Morris G. Bishop -- My fairy-book prince / Margaret Widdemer -- Patriot / Robert Hillyer --

In the twilight / Eudora Welty -- Mystery / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Frozen brook / Stella Benson -- Home, to Penelope / Bruce T. Simonds - - Vacation song / E. Vincent Millay -- Voice of the city / John C. Farr ar -- Vacation down south / E. Babette Deutsch -- Gratitude / Cornelia Otis Skinner -- In June-time / William R. Benet -- When swallows build / Corey H. Ford -- Where do the fairies meet? / Jessica Nelson North -- Winter walk / Rachel Lyman Field -- Song of summer / Sterling North -- Song of the woods / Stephen Vincent Benet -- My favorite character in fiction / Anne L. Parrish -- Four charades / C.P. Cranch -- Eight chara des, done up in rhyme, for lad and lass at candle-time / Ralph Henry Ba rbour -- Cross-word enigma / G.F. Babcock -- Anagram -- Double-acrostic / Elinor Lothrop Daniels -- Connected squares / Florence and Edna -- D iamond / Jennie N. Child -- Illustrated primal acrostic -- "Aged" puzzl e / Helen A. Sibley -- Oblique rectangle / George Linwood Hosea -- Magi c letters / Maurice P. Dunlap -- M.M.D. / Josephien Daskam Bacon.

Contains the "best" of "St. Nicholas," a magazine for boys and girls published at the turn of the 20th century. Included stories, poems, an d original illustrations.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2009. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) ([Works o f Henry Steele Commager]) Mode of access: Intranet.