6 FEBRUARY 1892, Page 25

A good story by Mr. Brander Matthews, " Tom Paulding,"

is at present running in St. Nicholas, and there are in the February number some really good poems—remarkably well illustrated, too—of which "Crooked Dick," by Anna Robeson Brown, is perhaps the most enjoyable, at all events for children. Probably no magazine maintains a more uniform—an almost monotonously uniform—standard of excellence than St. Nicholas.