A very scarce volume of Methodist juvenilia concentrated almost exclusively on missions and personal piety. It seems to have been issued for just one year, though it seems Kidder's Children's Periodicals of the United States seems to mistakenly note the year as 1846. It seems there is an errant source somewhere in the past records as others show the same. But the only volume we trace is the one we offer, indicated as "Volume I" and from the year 1848 rather than 1846.

Illustrated throughout, contents include: encouragement for those who fear; the escapes of rafaravavy. a missionary story [serial, taking place in madagascar]; the little tract distributor; the child's talent; encouragement in honoring parents; the little missionary at home; the pilgrim of the monghyr [india]; a letter on behalf of missionaries; hannah kilpin [india]; the child's missionary hymn; heathen sacrifices; part of a letter from a female missionary at vizagapatam; lessons from heathen lands; missionary verse by lady wriothesley russell; self-denail - the missionary box; a letter from south africa; a heathen mother; the moravian missionaries in greenland; mrs. adoniram judson and little maria; etc.

Kidder, Daniel P [ed.]. The Encourager: A Monthly Magazine for Children. Volume I. New York. Lane & Scott. 1848. 288pp.

Fair only, quarter leather, heavily rubbed, but solid. Minor worm traces at first few leaves, some foxing and handling. Perhaps half of the woodcuts very naively painted in.