Parley’s Magazine – November 1841

Parley's Magazine, aimed at children was a general interest magazine published under the title Parley's Magazine between 1833-1844. This particular excerpt from Parley's Magazine, Nov. 1841, Volume 9, (Pages 329-360) features articles, poetry, and stories of timely morality and ethics and American miscellany. Meet Dick Shaw, the Young Rebel who vexed everyone he met; Poor Marianna, the young woman who, after seeing her father's ship go down at sea, spends her life in mourning. Read the short play titled Breakfast Table Science, where youngsters learn about banking and the value of money; Learn to grown an oak tree from an acorn, to balance a pail on a table to defy gravity, about whaling, gynmastics, about fairness, meaness, selfishness, and the lifestyle of the 1800s.