1861 STUDENT AND SCHOOLMATE. Superb Civil War Periodical for the Young. Extensive War & Slavery Content. Spurgeon what of the night

what of the night

An exceptional example of a young person's religious diary of the time

So perhaps only one other copy extant and perhaps the only copy to come to the open market

Important anti-slavery politician on the run up to the Civil War and Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln

Brown missed it on that one

1861 STUDENT AND SCHOOLMATE. Superb Civil War Periodical for the Young. Extensive War & Slavery Content. Spurgeon what of the nightRather scarce Civil War era periodical. The Student and Schoolmate had initially been two separate periodicals [The Student; The Schoolmate], but joined together in 1858, under the editorship of William T. Adams, i. e. Oliver Optic. The new format provided both practical help for student and teacher in a final section of each month's paper, and fiction and non fiction narratives, heavily illustrated, for the bulk of it, focusing on history, morality,