Combining Literary Entertainment and Instruction with an Effort to
promote the Union of thorough Self-Improvement with every

Department of Industry.

EDITED BY GEORGE W. LIGHT.

THE progress of Society consists in nothing more than in bringing out the
Individual, in giving him a consciousness of his own being, and in quickening
him to strengthen and elevate his own mind. - CHANNING.

FIRST VOLUME.

BOSTON:

CHARLES H. PEIRCE, 3 CORNHILL.

1847.