Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-01-19
THE STUDENT:
A Family Miscellany and Monthly School Reader
EDITED BY Il. A. CAIKTNS

EDITED BY n. A. CALKINs.
YTNHIS work has now entered upon its Sixth Volume
i with more fattering prospects than ever before.
Its obects-Physic Moral and Intellectual improve
ment-have been so successfully carried out as to
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THE SUBJECTS
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acts Bograpy Of distinguished persons, illustrated
with portraits; Natu al History embracing descrip-
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