Very scarce run of just over 6 months of one of America's earliest periodicals for the young; superb content ranging from the emergence of South Carolina's leadership of the "Confederacy," to unique religious movements like the "Eternal Life Society." Time well spent reading this one.
A very rare early contribution by famed American naturalist, John James Audubon.
The Youth's Companion and Weekly Family Visitor. September 15, 1832 through March 23, 1833. Volume I. Issues 25-52. New York. School Book Depository. 96-208pp.
Contents include:
*Notes on Jails
*The Indian War [ Neaporte, a Sac Chief and the Indian Prophet, Winnebago, Captured]
*Brady the Bushranger by John Moore [serialized]
*The Volcano at Kirauea [Hawaii / Sandwich Islands]
*The African Colony at Liberia [Slavery, Abolition, Colonization Society]
*The Plain Dress Society
*Valley Forge
*A Singular Case of Mental Aberration
*Religious Fanaticism
*Account of a Hurricane by John Audubon [Early original contribution by John James Audubon; seems to have been submitted for publication to the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal the same year; a biography of Audubon was issued in the present periodical in the next year's issues.]
*The Cholera [Richmond, Virginia]
*The Hero of the Plague
*Incident in the Life of a Rascal
*A Distressing Scene in Greenland
*Revenge and Magnanimity - A Tale of the Cholera
*Passages from the Diary of a Physician. The Thunder Struck [series]
*Dueling
*The Comet
*Another Missionary Gone - Death of Bro. Hervey at Bombay, India.
*Ethan Allen and His Daughter
*Cholera in London
*Cholera at the West
*The Call of Spirit to Matter
*Dr. Beecher in New York [Lyman Beecher]
*Burning of the Richmond Theatre in the Year 1811
*Whiskey Banished from the Army
*Cholera Laying Waste to New Orleans [unburied dead fill the streets, etc.]
*Interesting Communication from Liberia
*Cholera in Kentucky, Ohio, Alabama, etc.
*The Spirit Language [fascinating account of a Christian woman with a message from her deceased mother-in-law for the family upon her death bed].
*South Carolina State Convention Raises and Militia and Declares itself a "Confederacy"
*Captain Morrell's Visit to a Slave Ship
*The President Declares South Carolina in Violation of the Constitution
*A Dreadful Catastrophe. Loss of the United States Frigate Constellation, with Nearly Soul on Board.
*A Full-Page Broadside "The Carrier's Address to the Patrons of the Youth's Companion."
*Hymn by John Newton [Early American appearance]
*A South Sea Rookery
*Murder
*Georgia Missionaries
*Anti-Christian Societies
*Biela's Comet
*The Rahway N. J. Murder
*Premonition of Death
*The "Endless Life Society." Curious story of a group who professed to rise to moral and physical perfection who, convinced they would never die, requested a large appropriation of land from the Federal Government where they could "dwell forever."
*Curious Experiment on a Rattlesnake
*Fossil Remains of a Mastadon
*Conversion and Martyrdom of a Turk
*Confessions of an Unreformed Drunkard
*Hereditary Drunkenness
*African Colonization, etc. etc.
Rare early children's periodical in large format, near folio. Stained, foxed, a few tears, one cross-wise through the page with no losses, one at margin with some light textual loss [though not obstructing the meaning]. No binding, but clearly bound at one time.