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HUNTS
Merchants Magazine and Commercial
Review.
Established July, 1879,
BY Freeman Hunt, Editor and Proprietor.
PUBLISHED MONTHLY.

PUBLISHED MONTHLY.
AZ l42 Fulton Street .New York at Fire Dol
lars per annua, IN Advance.
IfINHE MERCHANTS MAGAZINE AND COM
| L MERCIAL REVIEW will continue 20 include
in its design every subject connected with Commerce.
Manufactures, aud Political economy. ds-Commcr-
cia legislation commercial history ard geography;
mercantile biography, essays from she ablest pens
the leading topics OF the day relating 10 commercial
affairs, descriptive, statistical. and historical accounts
of the various commodities which form the subiec,
OF mercantile transactions, port charges, TARIFF Gus.
toms and regulations. treaties, commercial statistics of
the United States. and the different coinric, of the
world with which we have intercourse, including their
physical character, popuai ion, productions. exports
imports, seaports. moneys, weights mca surcs finance
and bank ing Observation-Disclosures connected It'll
commerce, embracing fisheries, incorporated coinpa.
MES, railroads. canals, steamboats,, docks post Offices
SC, principles of commerce, finance aud banking,
with practical and historical details and Illustrations
commercial law and marcanlle law reports, aud de-
cisious of courts in the United States and Europe
insurance partnership, principal and agent bills OF cx-
change, sale, guaranty bankruptcy shipping and nav
gaon, &c. and whatever else shall tend 10 dcvcope
the OF the country and the world, AMI illus
trate the various topics bearing upon commerce aud
commercial Literature. and may venture TO say that
no work heretofore published, embraces in lis pages
large amount of Information all these subjects
as the nineteen volumes now completed.
Our means OF enhancing the value Of the Merchants
Magazine and Commercial review constantly in
creaslng, and with new sources OF in formation an
tending correspondence abroad, and other facilities
which Zen years devotion 10 object have enabled
us 10 make available, we shall he able TO render the
work perfect rdde mccum Tor the merchant, navga
I tor and manufacturer, well to the statesman.
commercial lawyer. and political economist. and in
deed all who desire information tho mlltilarious
opci ations of business life
Extracts from letters addressed to The Editor.
From Hon Samuel Belts, u District Judge for the
Southern District of New York.
q have received the Merchants Magazine since lis
Establishment, and regard it as ne OF the most valuable
mn, ,caons OF the day. As register of facts con
rcc. with political economy and industrial interests
comm. cia agricultural, and manufacturing. is in
nv iuda uen, not equalledb by any work of and
cns in 4, lress and accuracy, and lis collection of
COS and Do trnes in relation TO maritime law will be
connJ b;hl,. useful TO professional mcn-oltcn ilrn is
Inc, American nd English cases OF great value. which
are moi 10 he Co I'd il any other publication most
hccrrIlv reconn 'cnd the work useful in high de-
gree 10 all profcssit ms studying Tue current history OF
the times "
From Hon Hen " Clay, Ashland. KY
Il have long known Ia great merits ci your Inaga-
zinc the most useful and ", liable OF all the publications
known 10 me. published in IT, United States
From the Hon Levi Woodbury., one oil The Justices OF
The US Count
q have heretofore read most the numbers OF the
merchants magazine with much satisfaction and adj
vantage II Is exceedingly useful TO the politician and
Scholar well as those engaged in coWmercidl p,ir-
suits 10 have the useful statistical Information with
which it abounds collected together and presented for
their pcr,isal seasonab'y.'
From Hon John Macpherson Dcrren, Senator ri the u
$ from Georgia
Il have been, for some time past in possession oithe
several volumes and numbers ol the merchants maya
zine. and in the habit of referring TO it, can there
foe lnhcsatingy say, that consider IT very vaua
bic addition to the library of the statesman, well
the merchant and express, do cordially. the hope
that It's publication may be continued with Increased
benefit 10 yourself, as feel assured II VIII be with adj
vantage 10 the public
From Hon Washington Hunt, member of congress- from
New York.
Il am gra,ilicd TO learn from your letter that your
valuable magazine continues 10 receive liberal SUP
port from the public. have lone considered 1t one Of
The most uscf, publications in the country Indeed
It may be regarded indispensable, not only TO The
slnan but to all who wish TO be well informed res
pecting the commerce of the world, aud the rapid
grow tn and vast import ance OF own commercial IN
tele,s. 4 work OF so much interest and usefulness
ought 10 have place ~ every school district library ~
the United States. Iwish by such means IT might
be brought within the reach of every intelligent ma IN
the country. am convinced that IT has done much 10
nbrralilc aud nationalize the public mind, and hope
your circulation may continue to increase until the pat
ronagr fthe work shall be equal TO It's inerlts'
From Hon Edmund Burke Commissioner OF Patents.
'''''When il first commenced thought its con-
tents resented rich treat, but from that time TO the
it has continued to improve IN the variety, eX-
ccencc, and value OF the intellectual rcpaSt II has
monthly Sc; before lis readers. Although proiesscdly
devoted To the interests that enterprsng and enlgen-
ed class of orr counyment merchants 1t Is moi more
valuable to om than ii is 10 the statesman and political
economist. know OF no work which equals 1t in The
variety copousncss, and accuracy of the statistical IN
formal ion which II contains and which, in my view,
constitutes one OF its most valuable features. Another
feature in the magazine which Hike very muchl The
spirit oil free discussion which pervades lis pages You
act wisely in permitting all paresto be heard upon the
moo,ed theories oftrade and commerce, which involve
10 exen, the great problem oi modern civilization
thus keeping open and free from obstruction, the only
direct ayenue TO truth.
'Your publication equally credi,abe TO the perodi'
cal literature fthe day lis leading articles exhibit a
bundant proof of The ability, research aud industry of
thei authors. In short, esteem the merchants mag,
azne as second 10 no publication ofthe kind, published
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