St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 13, May 1886, No. 7.

VariousProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 3.0
Word count
288K words
Chapters
29

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Literature Children's LiteratureEnglish Originals Adventure JourneyComing of AgeIllustrated GuideMagazine SelectionKnowledge PopularizationAmusing Tales19th CenturyChildlike WorldParent-Child ReadingChildren's Magazine

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 13, May 1886, No. 7. by VariousAuthor: Various,Language: English, Class: PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres, Release Date: May 31, 2010

Editor's review

This is the seventh issue of volume thirteen of St. Nicholas Magazine, a well-known nineteenth-century American children's periodical, published in May 1886. Its contents typically include stories, poems, popular-science pieces, historical anecdotes, and reader-interaction columns, reflecting the tastes and knowledge framework of Anglo-American children's reading at the time. For readers studying Victorian children's literature, periodical publishing history, or the history of English-language teaching, this issue offers concrete primary material; for general readers, it is a window onto nineteenth-century childhood reading life. The text is in English, and some vocabulary and syntax bear the marks of the period, so allusions may need to be looked up while reading. As a public-domain electronic text, it is convenient for full-text searching and classroom excerpting. It suits English majors doing periodical text analysis, and also readers with a nostalgic interest in old periodicals who wish to browse at random rather than read straight through.

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Reading tips

  1. Read by section, starting with stories or popular-science pieces, then returning to poems and reader-interaction columns.
  2. Keep a notebook for unfamiliar allusions and period vocabulary, and look them up afterward.
  3. Compare with other issues of St. Nicholas Magazine from different years to observe changes in the columns.
  4. English learners can choose one short piece for intensive reading and retelling practice.

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FAQ

Is this magazine suitable for children to read directly? The text is nineteenth-century English, and its vocabulary and syntax differ considerably from contemporary children's reading, so today's children will find it difficult to read independently. It is better suited to adult readers, researchers, or English learners reading selected pieces with support, and should not be given directly to young children.
Does this issue have a complete table of contents or author list? The material identifies the author only as "Various" and provides no specific contents or author list. The actual contents must be viewed by opening the electronic text, and layout and completeness of contents may vary between electronic versions.
Can it be used as English-learning material? Yes, but selectively. It is best to pick short stories or popular-science pieces with moderate vocabulary density and read them with notes and a dictionary; reading the whole volume is a heavy burden for intermediate learners and may frustrate them because of period vocabulary.

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Various Author

Various is not a real person but a collective attribution used in book cataloging and databases for works with multiple authors, commonly applied to anthologies, compilations, or publications with too many contributors to list individually. On this Chinese book site, this attribution covers as many as 3,387 titles, spanning encyclopedic entries, historical documents, and trial records. Representative works include several volumes of the 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the record of the trial of the major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Available public information is limited: nationality, birth and death dates, and common categories are not clearly recorded, making it difficult to summarize a unified writing style or personal biography. Readers should understand it as a cataloging convention rather than a single author.