. St. Nicholas [serial]. ABINGDON PRESS T/ie Abingdon Press is the trade imprint ofthe oldest publishing house in the United States YEARS ago, just a few months after Washington wasinaugurated as our first President, a man in Philadelphiaby the name of John Dickins started a publishing was the beginning of the house known as TheAbingdon Press. Since then the business has grown year after year. Therehas always been at the head of it men who have knownand loved good books and published them for other menand women and boys and girls who loved good books. They have printed stories th
. St. Nicholas [serial]. ABINGDON PRESS T/ie Abingdon Press is the trade imprint ofthe oldest publishing house in the United States YEARS ago, just a few months after Washington wasinaugurated as our first President, a man in Philadelphiaby the name of John Dickins started a publishing was the beginning of the house known as TheAbingdon Press. Since then the business has grown year after year. Therehas always been at the head of it men who have knownand loved good books and published them for other menand women and boys and girls who loved good books. They have printed stories that your great-great-grandfather read when hewas a boy and others that he read when he had grown up. They knowthe kind of books that boys and girls like—real books for real boys and girls. So it isnt any wonder that now The Abingdon Press is so successful thatit has to publish more and more of the kind of things you like to are a few of the latest books. We shall send you a catalog of theothers if vou want 7^/^^ LITTLE FOLKS SERIES {Four books in each scries) -By DOROTHY DONNELL CALHOUN Little Folks of the Folks from Folks in Art. Illustrated. Price, per book, net, 25 cents. TOURBILLON Or the King of the WhirlwindsBy ESTELLE R. UPDIKE A new kind of fairy, made from a good thought,a bit of wind-whirled dust, and a good-sized pinchof lightning. A charming book for children. Illustrated. Price, net, 3 5 cents. THE ABINGDON PRESS NEW YORK CINCINNATI CHICAGO BOSTON PITTSBURGH DETROIT KANSAS CITY SAN FRANCISCO 6 ST. NICHOLAS ADVERTISEMENTS (ADVERTISING COMPETITION No. 172) FISHERMANS LUCK/^NCE there was a fisherman who fished for Letters of^ the Alphabet instead of Fish of the Sea. He fished inthe four ponds which you see below. When the day wasover he found that all the letters had been laid out on theshore in such an order that they spelled a sentence of fourwords which every St. Nicholas reader will recognizeas a true statement. The f
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