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quarto, as well stocked with clerical and lay statistics, advertisements, 

 and jtidicial details, in the time of Increase Mather and the New 

 England witch trials. "What a treasure would the volume prove to the 

 Antiquary and Historian. II ow would the Historical Societies of Salem , 

 New Haven, Boston, and Nantucket, contend for the honor of re- 

 printing the precious document. "What jealousies, and rivalries, and 

 boastful eurekas would there be? Yet, doubt it not good reader, 

 the days of our own Queen Victoria will come to be as ancient, and 

 quaint, and full of curious mystery to other generations, as ever were, 

 or will be, those of a Castilian Isabella, or an English Queen Bess ; 

 and this portly volume has only to be kept long enough, to look as 

 strange and antique to the men of another century, as ever a dumpy, 

 brass-clasped quarto of the old puritan days of New England. When 

 the Canada of Anno Domini 2058 looks back, with inquisitive wonder, 

 on the Green- Youth of its nineteenth century, what a singular melange 

 will these Directory advertisements then appear, which now present 

 to our familiar eyes so business like an air. How will the antiquarian 

 book-worm of that unborn century gloat over the mysteries of these so 

 matter-of-fact trading manifestos and pictorial devices. And yet, there 

 is also an aspect scarcely less strange and note-worthy, in the repro- 

 duction amid our new Canadian clearings of so much that pertains to 

 an old-world civilization, and luxurious ingenuity of extravagance. 

 Amusing it is, indeed, to find here just such another inventory, begot 

 by the new-born energies of young Canada, as took the fancy of the 

 poet of the "Task" in the Old England of the eighteenth century, 

 with its broad-sheet wilderness of strange but gay confusion : 



Roses for the cheeks, 

 And lilies for the brows of faded ag^e ; 

 Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, 

 Heaven, earth, and oceaia, plundered of their sweets, 

 T^ectareous essences, Olympian dews, 

 Sermons, and city feasts, and favorite airs, 

 Eethereal journeys, submarine exploits, 

 And Katerfelto, with his hair on end 

 At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. 



Truly there is nothing new under the sun ; and yet one might fall 

 ■upon much duller and less novel reading than some of these same ad- 

 Tertisements, set forth here in all the glories of fancy typography and 

 illustration, to show our Great Grandfathers and Great Grandmothers 

 how we lived in the reign of good Queen Victoria. Here for example, 

 — s,et forth bv a graphic and most moving picture of an imfortunate 



