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tlcal information ; " it " conveys a valuable lesson ; " it is 

 likely to be " productive of a deal of good," &c. 



The editor of Hunt's Merchants' Magazine (who read 

 the book) states that " This volume is a history of the 

 hen speculation. It is written in Mr. Burnham's well- 

 known style of wit and satire, and it will be extensively 

 read, because ita facts and fictions are both attractive. 

 This speculation did not involve so serious results as to 

 make a sportive account of it objectionable. Whoever takes 

 up this volume will read it through with a lively interest, 

 and be richly amused." 



More than three hundred other secular journals, too, — 

 of all grades of influence, and standing, and character, — 

 have joined voluntarily in pronouncing this " a veritable 

 history;" a "most remarkable volume;" one of the 

 "most readable books ever published;" a work "that is 

 truly a humorous and reliable record;" really "a most 

 captivating production;" it is "running over with spice 

 and genuine mirth throughout; " it will " be read by every 

 body;" there are "few books to compare with this ex- 

 traordinary volume ; " a " pleasanter work has never been 

 issued from the American press;" an "admirably well- 

 written ' history ' of the most ludicrous of manias ; " a 

 " volume of genuine merit, that everybody should read;" 

 &c. &c. 



Is it likely that the conductors of these many moral and 

 literary journals should all be so stupid, or so wicked, as 

 thus to praise a book that was of an immoral and objection- 

 able tendency ? Does not common charity dictate, rather, 

 that the Rev. Mr. Huntington might be the mistaken per* 



