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.
24 leaves [Tisch Library copy contains 22]. Essay and narrative content includes: Soliloquy of a Serious Minister; On the Management and Education of Children and Youth. Includes a fold-out New Map of the World with the Latest Discoveries, engraved for Morse's Abridgment of Geography.