1852-1859 CHILD'S PAPER. 96 Issue Run of Important Tract Society Publication for Juveniles. Superb Content.

[American Tract Society, Juvenalia]. The Child's Paper. Volumes 1-8, January, 1852 through December, 1859 Complete. New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Cincinnati, and New Orleans. American Tract Society. 1852-1859. 384pp.

Volume 1. Playing Cards; A Child's Faith; First Step to Ruin [Re: A Youth in Prison]; The Silver Dollar, or How God Provides by Mrs. Helen C. Knight; Prospectus for the Child's Paper; Family Worship; Death at a School House [41 children died because of a riot that ensued after one student had a seizure]; The Little Beggars [Homeless Orphans]; The Invention of Printing [Woodcut of Guttenburg and his press, etc.]; General Schuyler of the American Revolution and His "Invisible Armor" of Faith; Hoe's Eight-Cylinder Power-Press [with engraving]; Who Rules the Weather [Indian Rain Dances, with Engraving]; The Orphan's Best Treasure; Flogging Sailors; The Little Welsh Girl; The Hospice of Abendberg for Idiots; The Little Deaf and Dumb Girl; A Baby Nursed by the Prison Door; Cruelty to Animals Punished; Letter from a Hindoo Boy at Ahmednuggur; John Bunyan in Jail with His Blind Child [with engraving]; etc.

Volume 2. The Chinese; The Child's Paper in Minnesota; Luther Climbing Pilate's Staircase [with engraving]; The Sandwich Islands, or God Seen in History; A Colporteur's Visit to Destitute Children; The Boyhood of Martin Luther; Are you a Miner?; The Rice Fields in Ceylon; An Indian School [Native American]; Missionary Beds; The Blind Girl; How Luther Found a Bible; The Jew and the Christian; The Little Unfortunates [Deaf and Dumb Children in New York]; The Missionary Child; The Capture of Major Andre [Benedict Arnold]; The Little Deaf and Dumb Boy; The Poor Children's Missionary; The Island Refuge [East Indies]; The New Sled [with engraving]; etc.

Volume 3. Knud Iverson - The Martyr-Child; The Birth of Georgia; The First Sabbath of the Pilgrims [1620]; Sabbath-Keeping Mackeerel-Catchers; Leang Afa and the Great Stir in China; A Log-Cabin Sabbath School; The Nestorian Christians; A Chinese Nursery Song; The Falls of Niagara [with Engraving]; The Perils of the Sea; The Street Beggar [homeless children]; Nebraska; Declaration of Independence [with fine engraving]; The Great Fraud [traveling dentist]; guns deaths from bird-hunting [105 deaths and 32 wounded]; The Largest Diamond; Whale-Fishing [with engraving; whaling, making whale oil, etc.]; A Talk about Leeches; The News-Boy [engraving]; Japan Opening Her Doors; Dog Laws; The Bowl of Gruel, or Knowing How; The Runaway; What the Bible has Done; Jug Worship [Drunkenness, Temperance, engraving of a drunk in the streets]; etc.

Voulme 4. Leang Afa of China; The Boy and the Skates; Christopher Columbus; The Sleigh Ride; The Sinking of the Atlantic steamer, Arctic [with engraving]; The Astor Library [with engraving]; The Old Negro's Logic; The Dead Baby; Care for Babies in Public Nurseries; Rules for Sleeping Well; The Protest at the Diet of Spires [with engraving]; Bunker Hill Monument; Four Ways of Spending the Fourth of July - Which is Best?; The Far Off Irish Boys; The Haystack Prayer Meetings and Rise of American Foreign Missions [Haystack Prayer Revival]; A Boston Farm-School; A Sabbath School Scholar in Prison; The New Home [Engraving of Family Hewing Logs for a Cabin]; The Step-Moether; Codfishing [superb engraving]; The Landing of the Pilgrims [with engraving]; etc.

Volume 5. Travellers Attacked by Wolves;  The War; The Preachers to the Heathen [with engraving]; The War-Spirit [Sebastopol]; A Noble Martyr; Chincapin Hunting; Kanoa [Hawaii; Sandwich Islands]; Bullets or Bibles; The Missionary's Horse; The Brickmaker's Family; A Sabbath School in California; Discovery of the Art of Printing; The New York Juvenile Asylum; An Indian Letter [from an Indian convert, with engraving]; The Martyrs of Madagasca [with engraving]; Many Uses of the Cocoa-Nut [Coconut]; Playing Pranks; Dogs of St. Bernard on the Alps; Howling Dervishes [whirling dervishes, with engraving]; At the Prayer Meeting; The Child's Paper [excellent engraving of printing press]; The Kennebec Indian; Fire! Fire! Fire! [with engraving by Currier]; The Pesky Keg; etc. 

Volume 6. Hindoo Women; The Skimming Shell; Pearl Fishery [with engraving]; The Paddies [discrimination against Irish immigrants]; A Duel - Against not only Laws of America, but of God; The Indian Mother; George Washington's Fifty-Seven Rules of Behavior; Hooking [stealing]; The Boy who Broke His Mother's Heart; A Teetotaler; Elle and the Tract Primer; The Covenanter's Marriage [with engraving]; The Hindoo Mother's Lament; The Life Car [Life Boat, with engraving]; The Walrus Hunt [with superb engraving]; Thomas Jefferson's Ten Rules for Life; The Lapland Reindeer and Northern Lights; Little Girls in Turkey; Guano Islands [with engraving]; The Life-Boat [with engraving]; Who Built the First Railroad; The Rainbow; etc. 

Volume 7. The Match Boys; Infancy and Age; Men for Christ's Army; Selling a Sled; Little Missionaries; The Storm at Sea; Swearing; The Frightened Chief; Business of a Bombshell - Explosion of old Munitions]; Death in the State Prison [of an incarcerated youth]; Praying Better than Stealing; Dr. David Livingstone in Africa; The Praying General; Samuel Finley Breeze Morse; The Mutinous Crew; The Band of Hope [temperance]; William Penn, the Quakers, and the Indians [with engraving]; Idols Put to Good Use [Adoniram Judson, with Engraving]; The Circus; The Crater of Mauna Loa [volcano, Hawaii, Sandwich Islands, with engraving]; The Golden Rule Society; The One-Eyed French Cabin Boy; Washington Crossing the Delaware [with engraving]; The Talking Cable; etc.

Volume 8. Thin Place in the Ice [with engraving]; Father'll Beat me if He's Cross [child abuse]; Benjamin Franklin and His Kite [with engraving]; The Young King and the Bible; Sleeping on Duty; Hot Air Balloons [with engraving]; Young George Washington and His Father; Fortune-Telling Book; the Jail Chamber; The Old Herb Woman; Country Boys; The Gamblers [with engraving]; A Visit from the Angels; etc. etc. 

A good+ copy, bound in half leather, generally solid, with pages that have light foxing, and are a bit handled.