An easy Introduction to Geography. 
     The Schoolboy addressed to the Editors. 
     Moral Tales continued. 
       Tale VIII.  The Jealous Wife. 
     The Affectionate Sisters. 
     Familiar Letters on Various Subjects,—­Continued.... 
       Letter V from Phillis Flowerdale to Miss Truelove. 
       Letter VI from Miss Truelove to Phillis Flowerdale. 
     Poetry.—­The Sweets of May. 
     The Cottage Retirement. 
     Advice to the Fair. 
     The Contented Cottager. 
     The Tear. 
     The Honest Heart.

The autograph of Eben Holt makes the contents of the magazine ludicrous as subjects of interest to a boy But having nothing better, Eben most surely read it from cover to cover.

In Charleston, South Carolina, Robert Wells imported the books read by the members of the various branches of the Ravenel, Pinckney, Prioleau, Drayton, and other families.  Boston supplied the juvenile public largely through E. Battelle and Thomas Andrews, who were the agents for Isaiah Thomas, the American Newbery.

An account of the work of this remarkable printer of Worcester, Massachusetts, has been given in Dr. Charles L. Nichols’s “Bibliography of Worcester.”  Thomas’s publications ranked as among the very best of the last quarter of the eighteenth century, and were sought by book-dealers in the various states.  At one time he had sixteen presses, seven of which were in Worcester.  He had also four bookstores in various towns of Massachusetts, one in Concord, New Hampshire, one in Baltimore, and one in Albany.

In 1761, at the age of ten, Thomas had set up as his “’Prentice’s Token,” a primer issued by A. Barclay in Cornhill, Boston, entitled “Tom Thumb’s Play-Book, To Teach Children their letters as soon as they can speak.”  Although this primer was issued by Barclay, Thomas had already served four years in a printer’s office, for according to his own statement he had been sent at the age of six to learn his trade of Zechariah Fowle.  Here, as ’prentice, he may have helped to set up the stories of the “Holy Jesus” and the “New Gift,” and upon the cutting of their rude illustrations perhaps took his first lessons in engraving.  For we know that by seventeen hundred and sixty-four he did fairly good work upon the “Book of Knowledge” from the press of the old printer.  Upon the fly-leaf of a copy of this owned by the American Antiquarian Society, founded by Thomas, is the statement in the Worcester printer’s handwriting, “Printed and cuts engraved by I. Thomas then 13 years of age for Z. Fowle when I.T. was his Apprentice:  bad as the cuts are executed, there was not at that time an artist in Boston who could have done them much better.  Some time before, and soon after there were better engravers in Boston.”  These cuts, especially the frontispiece representing a boy with a spy-glass and globe, and with a sextant at his feet, are far from poor work for a lad of thirteen.