FAST DAY SERMON REVIEWED. 5 



In reply to the article which the editor of the Transcript 

 permitted to he inserted in his columns, in the outset, over 

 the signature "£," (but which Mr. Burnham did wo^ write, 

 although it was generally supposed to have originated with 

 him !) the following respectful letter was addressed, by Mr. 

 Burnham, to the editor of that paper — but which he declined 

 to publish, although his columns had been first opened to 

 a correspondent upon the subject, to hold up to ridicule the 

 author of the book thus assailed. This letter was couched 

 in fe,ir and friendly terms, as follows ; and was published 

 in another daily of Tuesday. 



Editor of Evening Transcript. — Dear Sir: In 

 Friday's Transcript you permitted a correspondent to give 

 your readers an objectionable "brief sketch" of the Rev. 

 Mr. Huntington's "able" Fast Day sermon, in the course of 

 which that gentleman was pleased to assail my lately-pub- 

 lished book, the "History of the Hen Fever." Will you, 

 in the same friendly spirit, allow the author of that volume, 

 through your columns, to express his surprise that Mr. H. 

 should have chosen "Barnum's and Burnham' s" books for 

 his subject on that occasion ; and to add that (while I can- 

 not but think the reverend gentleman stepped aside from the 

 course prescribed by his legitimate duties in thus wantonly 

 attacking me) I regret that the Transcript should have 

 been made the vehicle for republishing the offensive stand _ 

 taken in the discourse alluded to. I am not aware that I , 

 ever crossed the path of Rev. Mr. Huntington, that he 

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