Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-01-22
THE STUDENT:
a Funsily Miscellany and Monthly School Reader.


EDITED BY n. A. CALKINS.
FNH1S work has now entered upon its Sixth Volume
l. with more fattering prospects than ever before
Its obJectsPhyscsl Moral and Intellectual improve
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with portraits; Natural History, embracing descrip
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