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THE STRIPED HYENA. 
THE HYEISTID^, OE HYENIKJE. 
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 
Iwas a true disciple, we are rather surprised to find that some one has not undertaken to render 
fthe 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 
