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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
EstabLished JUN, 1889,

EStdOtSNod, JMy, 1908,
BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
rHE Number for December, 1850 completed ths TWEEN
i tythird semi annual volume. The work has been
enlarged since its In july 1882 and each
pages few complete sets OF the Magazine may be
obtained the publishers office, ls2 Fulton street. New
York. neatly and substantially bound for two dollars ana
The following are few of the many commendatory let
tiers received by the editor of the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen;
Letter from, the Hon. Henry Clay.
ASHLAND, Goth July, 1s49.
Dear Sir: wish to express TO you the qualification
derived ON receiving the July number Of the Merchants
Magazine and Commercial Review, from viewing your
portrait In the beginning and from reading your address
to your friends the end of When We feel under OBJ
iiatons to those who have contributed to inorms-
ton and amusement we are naturally DESTROYS possess
all the knowledge OF them, of their appearance OF the ea
lures of their countenance and OF the character ana nab
its of their mind, which acquire. You have placed
your numerous readers (at least you have me, may
not speak for them) under those obligations; and the
number OF your valuable work now before me, IN some
degree, satisfies the desire to which have alluded.
have become quite familiar with the Magazine ana
opinion that is eminently entitled to the public regard
and support 1t collects and arrange in good ORDER large
amount of valuable statistical and other inormaton
highly useful only to the merchant but to the states
the culvator OF the EARTH to the manufacturer
the mariner in short to all classes of the business and
reading community
Entertaining this opinion, glad that 1t has been, and
hope that it may continue to be, literally paronized
Offering you cordial assurances my esteem
Err Freeman Hunt esq. '' H. CLAY.
Extract Of Letter from Hon. Mildrd Fillmore.
al have read 1t merchants Magazine) with good
deal of attention. and have no hesitation In saying that
think 1t of the most valuable periodicals that
published. To the merchant 1t quite indis-
pensable and to the statesman and of general nfor
nation almost equally desirable is grand repository
of useful facts and information, which can be found
whore well dgesed and accessible us in these NUM-
bers. only regret that do not own the whole work.
Letter from the Hon. Thomas III Benton.
WASHINGTON CRY, April TO- 1910.
Mr. Freeman Hunt-Su: owe you many thanks for
the opportunities have had to read the Merchants Mag
azne and have found it in reality to be magazine, and
that well replenished of all the useful matter which the
title would imply, and presented with fulness and
clearness which delights while it nstrucs 1t Is in fact,
merchants magazine in the large acceptation Of the
term-merchants who go between nations whose large
operations bring many departments of knowledge and
view of the state of the world into daily requision. But
it is not the great merchant only but the Of more
merchant of the interior asowho will find this magazine
to abound with the information the pursuit of his bust
and the elevation of the mercantile character
quires Nor is its utility at all confined to merchants, but
extends to the legislator and dplomast, and to all who
charged with managing the affairs of the nation For
myself have found it most useful to in my senate
abors and have been in the habit for many years Of
carefully consulting it.
Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,
THOMAS II. BENTON.
Letter from Hon. VIM. H. Stoard.
My Dear Sir: Have the goodness to place my name en-
your list Of subscribers for the Merchants Magazine
regard it as invaluable work for the Of all who
would understand not merely commercial operations in
this extending country but the fiscal and commercial
questions involved in the administration of the govern
ment
Freeman Hunt esq. WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
The Merchants Magazine is published monthly, at 142
Fulton street. New York, by FREEMAN HUNT, and fur
nshed to subscribers for Five Dollars year. in advance