Calculated for the four great Meridians of this Country and consequently may be relied on as accurate for every Place in the United States and British Provinces of North America. Also, giving Medical Counsel which may be relied on for the Treatment and Cure of the afflicting Diseases that prevail within the latitudes of the American States.
Contains 80 pages and 4 color plates. Essay and narrative content includes: Fireside, by the Editor; Round the World in a Hack, from Colonel Ingham's Papers; Roadside, by the Editor; the Song-Birds of North America, by Thomas M. Brewer; Brookside, by the Editor; Summer Rain by George Cooper; My Garden Acquaintance by James Russell Lowell; Side by Side, by the Editor; What Pictures Shall I Hang on my Walls?, by Harriet Beecher Stowe; the Middle States by Josiah Quincy; Talks Concerning the Human Body and its Management, by the Professor at the Breakfast-Table; the Risks and Failures of City Life, by Rev. Joseph P. Thompson, D.D., LL. D.; the Nineteenth Century by C.P. Cranch.