1856-1861 CHILD'S PAPER. 72 Issue Run of Important Civil War Publication for Juveniles. Superb Content.

A superb volume with excellent content. All years are fascinating reading, but 1861 is especially interesting historically as the content begins to shift toward talking to children about the Civil War, including accounts valorizing the death of soldiers, consoling orphans, talking about how Washington cared for soldiers as a means of raising support among children and mothers for soldiers heading off to war, etc.,

[American Tract Society, Juvenalia]. The Child's Paper. Volumes 5-10, January, 1856 through December, 1861 Complete. New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Cincinnati, and New Orleans. American Tract Society. 1856-1861. 288pp.

Volume 5. Travelers 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. 

Volume 9. Trout Fishing; Hugh Miller - The Christian Geologist; The Brazen Serpent; The Drawned God; A Japanese Lady [with woodcut]; The Child Colporteur; Evils of Young Girls Chewing Gum; Hope for Ireland; Fist Fighting; The Fishing Excursion; The Miner's Family; etc. 

Volume 10. The Captive Woodchuck [charming large engraving of a family with a pet woodchuck in a cage]; The Indian Chief; The Labrador Mission Flag; New Zealander's Argument; The Poor Dressmaker; Robbing the Railroad; The Drinking Fountain; The Water Terrace at Central Park [with lavish engraving]; The Silver Dollar; Fighting or Forbearing [with engraving of a juvenile brawl]; The Summer-House Prayer-Meeting; How to Serve Your Country [on children's desire to be soldiers and join the Civil War]; No Sabbath in War Times; The First Victory [on Elmer Ellsworth in the Civil War]; A Perilous Fight [American Revolution]; The Sabbath Fire; The Iron Boot; Washington's Care of His Soldiers; Washington at Boston; The Dying Soldier; Wilberforce Richmond; The Best Soldiers; etc. 

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