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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.


Established, July, 1889,
BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
rINHE Number for December $780, completed the TWEEN
i ty-third semiannual volume The work has been
enlarged since its in July 1885, and each
volume contains than hundred large
tayo pages. few complete sets of the Magazine may be
obtained at the publishers Office, 142 Fulton street. New
York. neatly and substantially bound for two dollars and
half per volume.
The following few of the many commendatory let
tiers received by the editor of the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen:
Letter from G.e Hon. Henry clay.
ASHLAND, Goth July, 1919.
Dear Sir wish to express TO you the qualification
derived 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 at the end of It. When feel under OBJ
legations to those who have contributed to nforma-
ton and amusement naturally DESTROYS 10
all the knowledge Of thc of their appearance the
lures of their ountenance and Of the character and hab
its of their mind which acquire You have placed
your numerous readers lat least you have me- IL may
not speak for them nnder those obgations and the
number Of your valuable work before me, in
degree, satisfies the desire to which have alluded
have become quite familiar with the Magazine and
Review, and have hesitation in expressing my hum BILE
and support collects and arranges in good order srre
amount of valuable statistical and other information
highly useful not only to the merchant but the states
man. to the cutvator Of the EARTH to the manufacturer
to the mariner in short to all classes Of the business and
reading community
Entertaining this opinion glad that has been and
hope that II may continue to be- literally patronizcd
Offering you cordial assurances Of my esteem and re-
gard, am truly your friend and obedient servant,
Freeman Hunt, esq. II. CLAY.
Extract Of a letter from Hon Allard Fillmore.
al have read 1t (Aferchants Magazne) with n good
deal Of attention, and have hesitation in saying that
think 1t Of the most valuable periodicals that
published To the merchant IL quite inds
pensable and to the statesman and general infr
nation almost equally desirable. IL grand repository
Of useful facts and information which be found
where well dgested and so accessible as In these num-
bcrs. only regret that do not own the whole work."
Letter from the HIM. Thomas IT. Benton.
~WAsHINaToN CRY, April 90, 1sl9
Mr. Freeman lIunt--lSr: ] owe You many thanks for
the opportunities have had to read the Merchants Mag
azne and have found IL in reality to be magazine and
that well replenished of all the useful matter which the
title would imply, and presented with fullness and
clcarness which delights while it instruc II 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 rcquison But
II Is not the great merchant only, but the ono of more
modest but nevertheless of most useful operationsthe
merchant of the interior asowho will find this magazine
to abound with the information the pursuit of his bust
ness and the elevation of the mercantile character re-
quires Nor is s utility at all confined to merchants but
extends to the legislator and dipomast and to all who
are charged with managing the affairs of the nation For
myself have found II most useful TO In my senate
rial labors and have been the habit for many years of
carefully consulting It,
Very respectfully, sir your obedient servant
THOMAS III. BENTON.
Letter from Hon. Vim. II. S,oard.
my Dear Sir Have the goodness to place my name on
your list of subscribers for the Merchants Magazine
regard II 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.
M,,a great your hgm8e
The Merchants Ad1nsine Is published monthly at 142,
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