Fascinating short-lived periodical out of Boston with some truly fascinating content, including first printings of poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, items on slavery, feminism and women's rights, anti-immigration, etc. 

Hall, John B. and Andrew J. Loud [eds]. The World We Live In. A Periodical Issued Semi-Monthly.Complete, January 6, 1844 through September 7, 1844. Boston. John B. Hall and Andrew J. Loud. 1844. 136pp.

Contents include:

*Murmuring Pays no Bills

*Mankind in the Fourteenth Century

*The Insect Part of Creation

*Published Song with Music The Inebriate's Lament [ Temperance ]

*The Englishman in Tartary [series]

*China

*The Miser's Wife by Elizabeth Oakes Smith

*The Duel

*A Sketch for Mothers and Daughters

*The Quaker and the Highwayman

*Education of Bees

*The Monster Telescope 

*The First and Last Thanksgiving

*The Two Merchants. A Tale of Scotland

*My Mother's Bible

*The Voice of Angels by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [Apparently the first publication of this poem]

*Time . . . the Perishing Nations

*I Love the Snow. A Song with Music by O. W. Withington

*The Church of the Cup of Water

*Keep the Loaf Under Your Own Arm. A True Story of 1776.

*Women Fattened at Tunis for Marriage

*A Remarkable Case of a Supposed Trance.

*John Quincy Adams

*Skillful Surgery

*Smoking

*Song. The Old Oaken Bucket by Samuel Woodworth.

*The Dignity and Respectability of Mechanical Occupations by Hon. Francis Baylies.

*The Last of the Red Men [Native American Lament on the Genocide of the Indians]

*Destruction of the Inquisition

*Indian Treaties

*Re-capture of Stony Point. Brave Conduct of General Wayne during the American Revolution

*The Trampled Land

*Peculiarities of Insane Persons

*The Poor Sailor and the Shark

*The Blind Boy's Return by Elihu Burritt

*The Monster Salazar - Incident of Kendall's Santa Fe Expedition

*Charles John Bernadotte

*Female Depravity in London [ Prostitution - Sex Trafficking ]

*The Small Feet of the Chinese Women

*Second Sight [Prevision - Prophecy]: Anecdote of Talleyrand.

*The Ex-Dey Algiers

*Singing Conducive to Health

*The Fate of a Highwayman

*Mesmerism

*Sin and Philanthropy by Lydia Maria Child

*Insanity Cured by Mental Employment

*The Sea Boy by Mrs. Lydia H. Sigourney

*An Alligator Carried Off by a Tiger

*Women's Temper

*Cure for the Bite of a Rattlesnake

*The Guardian Angel. An Incident of the Plague at Constantinople

*Music. The Dream is Pastor. Poetry by Edward Fitz Aubyn and Music by Stephen Glover

*Song of the American Eagle by a Lady of Vermont [Poem]

*Freedom's Reply

*Native Americanism in Philadelphia [Fascinating "America First" Rally in Philadelphia that led to riots, etc.

*A Scene in Spain by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

*A Sunday at Moscow

*The Last Arts of the Egyptians

*Snake Catchers

*The Deluge of Foreigners [on the dangers of too much immigration]

*Notes and Anecdotes by a Traveller in Russia

*The Guillotine

*The City of Hayti

*An African's Revenge [murder of an owner by a slave]

*Portrait Painting among the Indians by Catlin

*Female Influence

*The Temperance Reform

*The Slave Ship [lengthy poem]. 

*Englishmen among the Cannibals of New Zealand

*Monsters of Western America 

*A Living Monster [Native American Tale of a Half Bullfrog Half Man]

etc. etc. etc. 

Small folio; disbound with last two leaves detached. Complete. Some ink stains on a few leaves, not impacting legibility.