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WE desire to furnish in the Jowrnal a publication so neces- 
sary and interesting, that every fancier, young or old, whosees 
a copy, will not only feel anxious to secure it for himself and 
family, but will have a personal pride in its successful career ; 
and will, therefore, take pleasure in calling the attention of 
all his friends and acquaintances to its merits, thus holding 
up our hands in its improvement; and reaping, with others, 
the general benefit. Fanciers, this weekly is devoted 
to your interests. Its ultimate success depends mainly on 
your generous support—and a very little individual effort 
will insure it. There are very few who could not easily 
obtain two or three subscribers, who will, sooner or later, 
be glad to each avail themselves of this cheap weekly adver- 
tising medium. 
We shall spare no pains to increase the practical value of 
this representative of the interests to which it is devoted, and 
intend that it shall lead the van in the education of the taste 
of fanciers, both young and old. 

Unner the head of Correspondence will be found a letter 
from Mr. L. Wright asking for space in the Journal for his 
replies to Mr. G. P. Burnham. During the past week we 
have received many letters congratulating us on the term- 
ination of those articles; in fact, the feeling has been so 
strong against the discussion of this ‘‘ Brahma-origin’’ 
theory that we omitted to publish the last two articles sent 
by Mr. Burnham. The last one was a summing up of his 
case in brief, and in justice to Mr. Burnham, we ought now to 
publish that article; and as far as we are concerned, will 
cheerfully grant the space for Mr. Wright’s replies. We 
have not committed ourselves to Mr. Burnham or his theo- 
ries only this far: we do not believe that the Brahma Fowl 
originated in Connecticut at all, and it is more than likely 
that the ‘ Brahmas,” or ‘Gray Fowls,’”’ taken from New 
York to Connecticut, came from this city instead of Lucki- 
poor, in India; and when Messrs. Burnham, Wright, and 
Plaisted have got through, we may have something to say 

on this subject, but not during the present fall and winter, 
‘| as we hope our columns will be filled with more interesting 
matter to the majority of our readers. In this case, ‘‘ Burn- 
ham v. Wright,’’ it is our desire to see justice done; and we 
hardly think it fair for Mr. Wright to make any use what- 
ever of that humorous, ‘‘ highfalutin’’ work, The Hen Fever. 
In a recent number of the Journal, we published a humor- 
ous letter of Mark Twain’s, in which he explains how per- 
fect he wasin the art of raising (stealing) chickens. One 
might as well quote from this to prove Mark Twain a chicken 
thief. No, friend Wright, let the Hen Fever alone, and 
meet the charges squarely. 

CassELL’s Book or PraxEons, No. 5, advance copy, just 
received. It contains, as usual, two colored plates, in Mr. 
Ludlow’s usual good style; the first of which represents that 
gem of the pigeon tribe, the African Owl, in three colors, 
white, blue, and black; the second plate represents a mag- 
nificent Blue Carrier cock. The chapter on Carriers is still 
continued, and is illustrated by eight woodcuts, representing 
the head of the Carrier in its different stages of growth and 
perfection ; showing the defects this breed is liable to, and 
how to remedy them. This chapter is expected to contain 
all Mr. Fulton knows about a Carrier, and we think he will 
be capable of exhausting the subject. His experience with 
this bird is that of almost a lifetime; and he has, without 
doubt, handled more first-class Carriers than any other fan- 
cier now living. The book is edited and arranged, as our 
readers are already aware, by Mr. Lewis Wright. 


CorreSpoNnDENCE, 

MR. BURNHAM AND MR. WRIGHT. 
Sir: In the Fancier’s Gazette, which will about reach you 
with this, you will see that I have inserted the greater part 
of Mr. Burnham’s letter in yours of June 11th, so far as 
regards the name of Brahmas. The other points will be 
dealt with in due time. 
I have not replied to it, not being ready at that moment, 
or having space; but I was anxious not longer to delay Mr. 
Burnham the publication of his argument on that point. 
My examination of the subject is now, however, nearly 
concluded, and my replies will follow in due course. 
The purpose of this brief letter is to ask of all your 
readers, to suspend their judgment until they have heard 
both sides. JI am not surprised one writer should express 
his opinion, that ‘‘ Mr. B. has the best of it’’ in our “ un- 
pleasant difference,’’ and that another should think my ref- 
erences to Mr. Burnham ‘‘prejudiced.”” He has had all the 
talk yet, my turn is yet to come, and I shall endeavor ‘to 
make a clean thing of it in my poor way,’ to borrow his 
own words. He has spoken of me civilly enough in your 
columns; but has written to me a letter (which he has done 
well to mark ‘ private ’’) full of the most scurrilous abuse, 
and an anonymous article in another paper says, that Mr. 
Burnham has “ very gently’ characterized my book as ‘‘a 
most disingenuous, erroneous, and dastardly assault’? upon 
him, personally. Where he has said this I do not know; 
but these things oblige me to deal with the matter in a dif- 
ferent way to what I might otherwise have done, and I shall 
meet Mr. Burnham squarely and prove conclusively that 
while my theory of Brahma origin may be erroneous, and 
