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The Rover Vol. 01 No. 16

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"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith and Lawrence Labree. The editors aimed at a high quality standard in their selection of short stories and poetry. Every half-year, the 26 weekly issues were also published under a bound compilation. This current issue collects another interesting mix of short stories and poems, as well as shorter columns. - Summary by Sonia (2 hr 33 min)

Chapters

There is not in this wide world a valley so sweet

2:04

Read by Alan Mapstone

The first daughter of Eve, by Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes Smith

6:36

Read by Faithann Gibson

The bald eagle

29:16

Read by Scotty Smith

Hunter's grave, by Joseph R. Chandler

9:57

Read by missingnumber

The wife's first love

7:57

Read by Sonia

A flower in the desert, by Seba Smith

2:21

Read by Alan Mapstone

Mary Magdalene. A tradition of Nain

18:56

Read by Tad Davis

Joke

0:49

Read by Scotty Smith

Bonaparte's first victory. From Everett's lectures of the French Revolution

6:04

Read by Alan Mapstone

The death watch, by T. Hood

8:30

Read by Sonia

Jefferson's personal habits, health, etc

5:12

Read by Jim Locke

The idiot

5:50

Read by Scotty Smith

Lafayette and the Indian girl Mary

33:15

Read by Jim Locke

Allegoric vision, by Samuel T. Coleridge

12:14

Read by Faithann Gibson

Our table

4:13

Read by Gabrielle Rodriguez