Rather desirable periodical for the young with exceptional woodcuts throughout. Erratically titled as Fithian changed the name of the periodical nearly every month. Complete, as issued. Rare on the market. 

Contents include: Dangers of Whaling [with Woodcut]; Boa Constrictor Killing a Deer [with Woodcut]; On the Death of William Pitt; Pursuing a Whale; The White Bear [Polar Bear, with Woodcut]; Early American Heroism; House of Refuge [with account of how many were indentured, sent out to sea, etc,]; Dr. Benjamin Franklin [with Woodcut]; The Old Coal Man [with Woodcut]; Ode for Washington's Birth-Day [with Woodcut]; Barbarous Pastimes among the Ancients [with Woodcut]; Americanisms; The Fairmount Waterworks [with Woodcut]; Adventure with a Buffalo [with Woodcut]; The Flood in Guiana - Voyage in a Bath Tub; A Short Lecture on Temperance; The Magpie and the Pickled Cockles; Incidents in the History of South America; Different Races of Men [with Woodcut; "the countenance of the negro is more unlike the European, and more like the monkey, than that of any other variety [of human]]; Charms of Agriculture; The Sluggard; Defend the Needy; The Yellow Serpent - Discovery of the Guaco Plant; A Chapter on Bees [with comical woodcut]; Report of the National Convention of the Friends of Common Schools; The Cadets of Temperance; How Paper is Made; White Thorn - The Widow's Daughter. A Fairy Tale of the Bretagne; The Deaf; Liberty; On the Manufacture of Glass; Resignation of Colonel Florence; Exploit of Mr. Jasper [of the Revolutionary War]; The American Flag [woodcut with original poem by J. R. Drake]; John Adam's Speech on the Adoption of the Declaration of Independence; Fidelity of a Negro Boy; The Blind Boy; General George Washington and Pulaski; Or, the Unknown Warrior. A Tale of the American Revolution; An Irish Schoolmaster's Mode of Teaching the Alphabet [with Woodcut]; Filial Love among the Japanese [with Woodcut]; Attend to Children's Teeth; The Wreck [with Woodcut]; Balloons [with excellent Woodcut]; The Maniacs [on the Insane]; A Chapter on Phrenology [with great Woodcut]; The Pictured Rocks [of Michigan]; Sports and Pastimes in West Jersey; Pigmies of Africa; The Cod Fishery; Mermaids; The Young Rebel; A Phenomena of the Brain; The Advantages of Bathing; Sperm Whale Fishery [large Woodcut]; The Introduction of Coffee; A Tribute to George Washington [with Woodcut]; The Shipwrecked Sailors; etc. etc.

Fithian, Charles [ed.]. Boys' and Girls' Penny Journal, A Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Knowledge. Vol. II. 1849. Philadelphia. Wm Y. Owen [Printer]. 1849. 208pp [pagination erratic, but complete].

Worn, a couple gatherings detached, worn at foredge with minor losses, one corner torn off affecting a few words, etc.