12 MARCH 1887, Page 24

St. Nicholas, which is the children's companion to the Century,

is as beautifully printed and as prettily and comically illustrated as ever. There are some good dog stories and cat pictaree in the March number, and there is an excellent instalment of a series of papers on " Historic Girls,"—telling the sad and romantic story of Jacqueline of Holland. A good deal both of the prose and of the verse of the St. Nicholas is somewhat above the intelligence of children, in point either of weight or of humorous subtlety.