Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-04-11
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THE STUDENT:
A Family Miscellany and Monthly School Reader
EDITED BY N. A. CALK1NS.
FINHIS work has now entered upon its Sixth Volume
L with more hattering prospects than ever before.
Its objects-Physical Moral and improve
ment- have been so successfully carried out, to
meet the unqualified appreciation of its thousands of
readers. Being SO arranged to adapt it to every
member Of the family, from the child to the parents,
it occupies broader field than any other Magazine
extant, and is emphatically TIE FAMILY MISCELLANY.
THE SUBJECTS
Treated in its pages embrace The Sciences, including
important discoveries; History, with the leading
current events of nations countries and of individual
acts; Biography of distinguished persons illustrated
with portraits; Natural History. embracing descrip-
hons and illustrations of Beasts Birds Fishes Insects
Trees, Plants Fruits and various productions of
ture. These are enliVened and rendered more inter
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OUR MUSEUM
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rry productions of the presentday and relic of former
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spondents, their answers, also enigmas puzzles w.t.
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raj lesson fact in history nature. Teachers and
tod tn af.al
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