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THE STRIPED HTENA. 



THE HYENID^E, OR HYENIN^E. 



As several distinguished authors of the present age have undertaken to reconcile the world 

 to the Great Man-Killer of Modern times ; as Aaron Burr has found an apologist, and almost an 

 , eulogist; as Eugene Aram has been commended to our sympathy, and, Jonathan "Wild apotheo- 

 sized in romance ; and as learned commentators have recently discovered that even Judas Iscariot 

 was a true disciple, we are rather surprised to find that some one has not undertaken to render 

 the family of Hyenas popular and amiable in the eyes of mankind. Certain it is, that few marked 

 characters in history have suffered more from the malign inventions of prejudice. The ancients 



