The Rover Vol. 01 No. 16
Lawrence Labree and Seba Smith
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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 |