A very nicely preserved two year run of one of the most influential juvenile religious magazines of the 19th century, including exceptional original contributions from young children of at the Choctaw and Cherokee Schools, original correspondences from American Missionaries abroad, etc., And superbly illustrated. 

The Youth's Dayspring. Volume II. Boston. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. 1851. 188pp.

Contents include: Hindoo Blacksmights [with woodcut]; The Hindoo Pilgrim [with woodcut]; The First Siberian who Loved Jesus; Preaching Station at Kauai [with woodcut]; What the Gospel does for Heathen Children; Caffre Liberality; Girls' School-Room at Ningpo China [with woodcut]; Tent Preaching in India [with woodcut]; Arab Aversion to Cold Water by D. M. Wilson; A Night in an African Wilderness; The Choultry of Rajah Timal Naig [with woodcut]; The Intelligent Heathen Boy; Khoabane - An African Christian; A Description of the Church of Christ by a South Sea Islander; The Hindoo Twin Orphan Children [with woodcut]; The Goddess Kali [with woodcut]; The Armenian Boatman and the Mad-House; The Chinese Goddess Ling-Chui-Na [series, with multiple woodcuts]; Some of the Foolish Things in the Religion of Syria; Jewish Children Contributing to Christian Missions; Introduction of the Gospel at Aitutaki; Mission Premises at Rarotonga [with woodcut]; The Offering of a Little Boy Out West; The Nestorian Sabbath School; The Poor Blind Girl of Varany; Parrot Island; The Influence of Caste; How the People of Waimea Support their Minister; The Blind Girl [with woodcut]; A Brahmin Reading [with woodcut]; Composition of a Choctaw Girl [Indian Schools]; Report of Mrs. Bridgman's School at Shanghai; Ararat and the Monastary of Echmiadzin [with woodcut]; Vishnu Asleeep on a Thousand-Headed Serpent [with woodcut]; Another Letter from a Choctaw Girl; A Rescued Slave [interestingly, just after Fugitive Slave Act of 1850];  Fashion a Tyrant; Juggernaut [with woodcut]; etc. etc.   

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The Youth's Dayspring. Volume III. Boston. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. 1852. 188pp.

Contents include: The Temple of Shiva [with woodcut]; Trebizond [with woodcut]; What a School of Arab Girls Did; Job - The Sandwich Islander [Hawaii]; Temple of the God Pulliar [with woodcut]; Peter Jacobs - The Indian Missionary to the Ojibwa [with woodcut]; A Zulu Wedding; The King's Palace at Honolulu [with woodcut]; Hindoo Devotees [with woodcut]; The Dying Jewish Youth by W. G. Schauffler; A Revival in a Cherokee School; Rev. Hugh Hahn [with woodcut] of Africa; The Blind Girl that Could See; Cricket Fights; Saleh - An Arab Convert [with woodcut; The Old and New School-House at Wheelock - Choctaw Nation; The Bereaved Zulus; Nestorian Children Eager for Instruction [with woodcut]; View of Lichtenau [with woodcut]; A Choctaw Girl on Loving Enemies; Wandering Namaquas [with woodcut]; A Brahmin Carrying Holy Water [with woodcut]; The Isles Waiting for God's Law [with woodcut]; A Medicine Man [with woodcut]; A Letter from Syria; Umatanda - the Blind Zulu; Tuscarora Children; An African Treaty; Hindoo Plowing [with woodcut];  Heathen Groves [with woodcut]; A Choctaw Girls' School [at Pine Ridge]; Recent Persecution in Madagascar [macabre woodcut]; Flat Head Indians [of the Rocky Mountains; with woodcut]; etc. etc. 

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Front and rear wraps and matter from each issue included in the volume. 

A good copy, bound in half leather, generally solid, with light to moderate foxing, and some toning. Textually quite good.