Contents of issues for 1836-38 are reprinted from a popular periodical.

Contents of issues for 1836-38 are reprinted from a popular periodical.

Publishers of certain religious magazines and ladies' magazines collected either odd numbers of their periodicals, or a complete run, and bound them as a gift book, of which, this is one.

The volume is illustrated with a steel-engraved frontispiece and five plates by H.W. Smith after works by Whipple, Caracce, Poussin, Jones and Jules Laure, as well as an additional steel-engraved title page after Warren by O. Pelton"--PRBM

Thompson: "Points out the virtues of temperance and the evils of smoking and gambling."

Echoes of the past about California and ... In camp and cabin (1928) reprints works by Bidwell and Steele published earlier. Bidwell's narrative was composed in 1889 and first published in 1890 in the Century Magazine.

Bookplate shows Dr. Johnson in London. Book contains anecdotes about Johnson's life in London.

A mix of short stories and poetry for children.

Anthology of prose and poetry by authors including John Milton, John Galsworthy, Edmund Gosse and G.K. Chesterton, set against the background of the World War I. Some of the stories also concern blindness.

Frontispiece is a photograph of Alexandra by W. & D. Downey, a rotogravure with a false plate mark.