Christy, Harriet. "Mary Mapes Dodge."

In Writers for Children, edited by Jane M. Bingham. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988. Christy provides a critical overview of Dodge's novels, short stories, and poetry, arguing that her literary accomplishments are less significant than her editorial ones.

Commager, Henry Steele, ed. The "St.

Nicholas" Anthology. New York: Random House, 1948. This is the best single source of a cross section of materials that appeared in the magazine.

Darling, Richard L. The Rise of Children's Book Reviewing in America, 1865-1881. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1968. Through quotations and summaries, Darling reviews the mostly favorable nineteenth-century critical reception of the various editions of Hans Brinker.

Dodge, Mary Mapes. "Children's Magazines." Scribner's Monthly 6 (July 1873): 352-354. Also available in Children and Literature: Views and Reviews, edited by Virginia Haviland (New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1973). This is the best single statement of what Dodge...