1861 STUDENT AND SCHOOLMATE. Superb Civil War Periodical for the Young. Extensive War & Slavery Content. Manuscript Samuel Bolde at the height

Samuel Bolde at the height of the second wave of Anglican repression of dissenters [the first being the Ejection at 1662]

two complete years

Charles Haddon Spurgeon gave a pre-publication copy to his future wife with this inscription upon the fly-leaf

so amply secures the essentials of liberty

Moderator Straight

1861 STUDENT AND SCHOOLMATE. Superb Civil War Periodical for the Young. Extensive War & Slavery Content. Manuscript Samuel Bolde at the heightRather 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,