From the New York Farmer and Mechanic.

"The number for June completes the fourteenth volume, and the seventh year of the existence of the Merchants' Magazine.' The reputation it has acquired at home and abroad, and the success that has marked its progress, must be truly flattering to the enterprising editor and proprietor. He has endeavored to infuse into his journal a national spirit and character, by securing the aid of able correspondents in all parts of our wide-spread Republic, and by exhibiting the resources of every state and territory of the Union. On mooted points in political economy, banking, and the principles of trade, he has freely admitted articles advocating antagonistic doctrines and opinions; and while it is his great aim to exhibit facts, and embody the practical operations of commerce, the Magazine is ever open to the free and fair discussion of every subject legitimately falling within its general scope."

From the Rochester Daily American.

"No person pretending to do what can be fairly called business,' no merchant who considers that name an honor and desires to do it honor, can sustain himself without Hunt. And those who would not make the getting of gain a contracting, servile, base pursuit, should study the Merchants' Magazine to enlarge and elevate their vision. While out of what is called business, we bear unbought testimony that Hunt brings us information we get nowhere else-valuable as any to be found in ponderous encyclopædias, or immured in musty folios. In fact, the country owes him a debt of gratitude for having almost created American statisticsat any rate, he gives to what was floating, contradictory, perishable, and difficult of access, a 'local habitation and a name.

From the Rochester Daily Advertiser.

"There is no periodical published, which is more frequently referred to by the merchant, than this Magazine. It contains exactly what every merchant should understand; and if what it contains is not understood by a portion of those engaged in trade, they have no right to expect success in business. The intelligent merchant, other things being equal, has at least 20 per cent the advantage of his unintelligent competitor. By intelligence, we do not mean a knowledge of the classics, or of general literature; but an acquaintance with the laws of trade, and a thorough knowledge of the markets, throughout the world. These he is likely to find condensed, once a month, in the Merchants' Magazine."

From the Brooklyn Evening Star.

"HUNT'S MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE.-Amongst the many magazines which are like the flowers which garnish, or the fruit which give zest to a meal, here is the principal dish itself—the substantial roast beef, good, hearty, substantial fare. We need not praise the work. Freeman Hunt is too well known to require any eulogy."

From the New York Commercial Advertiser.

"Hunt's Merchants' Magazine is always a welcome visiter to our editorial table, because of the reliability and extent of its commercial information. There is one feature especially that commends it to the mercantile community of the Union; it is strictly national in its character, evincing no partiality for the North or the South, the East or West, nor for this city or that. The editor's industry is eminently conspicuous in many important statistical tables always found in this Magazine."

From the Philadelphia Saturday Post.

"This work deserves more than the passing notice with which we are frequently compelled to dismiss it, in the flood of new works which are constantly running through the press. Unique in design, it has been faithful and impartial in execution; and for important statistical information, useful essays and memoirs, and papers upon all subjects of commercial interest, we know of no better library than the past issues of the work; a library to which the new numbers are continually adding."

From the Polytechnic Review, London, England.

"To the merchant, to the student of statistics, to the politician, this publication is indispensable. The examination of one number will clearly prove this, for, as we have before said, it contains information nowhere else to be found. In future numbers we shall examine it more in detail, and, by giving extracts, show at once how essentially useful a Magazine it is."

From the St. Louis Republican.

"It may be said of this work what cannot be said of many other works of similar character, that, as our commerce extends, the industry and exertions of the editor keep pace. A merchant who has been in receipt of this work, would as soon be without a price current as to omit receiving it. In fact, from the value of the information it regularly contains, it should be in every counting house."

From the Portsmouth (Ohio) Tribune.

"Prompt to a day, this capital work arrives freighted with what all merchants ought to know, and much that is interesting to those of other walks in life. It may not be generally known, but we learn such is the high character of the work, that it is sought and relied on by statists and scholars in every quarter of the globe, and by the ministry of every civilized government."

From the Albany Argus.

"All who read this Magazine have acquired such an attachment for it, and are in the habit of praising it so enthusiastically, that little more can be said in its favor. We believe the public sentiment unanimously concurs in the opinion that Hunt's Merchants' Magazine is the most valuable commercial periodical published in this country."

From the Nashville (Tenn.) Union.

Apart from the vast fund of commercial and statistical information collected and preserved in the work, in a permanent form, it has the advantage of being ably conducted upon the soundest principles of political economy. No merchant who desires to be such in the proper sense of the honorable name, should be without it; and to all business and professional men it will prove equally useful."

From the Oswego Daily Advertiser.

"The June number of this standard commercial periodical is from the press. It completes the fourteenth volume of the work, and we venture to say, no publication in the world has, during the same period of time, furnished to the commercial man, and the statesman, such an amount of valuable matter. Its statistics are indispensable to the public man.”

From the Harrisburgh (Pennsylvania) Intelligencer.

"We have often commended this work to the attention and patronage of the public, but we cannot do so too often. To Merchants, Mechanics, Farmers, Politicians, and business men of all classes, it is invaluable; and none who can afford it should be without it."

From the New York Daily Globe.

"As an interesting work for the general reader, and as peculiarly appropriate to the wants and wishes of mercantile men, it is equally worthy of commendation, and is not equalled by any work in the world."

From the Charleston (S. C.) News.

"Mr. Hunt has succeeded in rendering this Magazine a purely national work, perfectly free from party feelings or sectional bias. He goes for his country in the largest sense of that term."

From the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Gazette and Advertiser.

"The monthly visit of this standard periodical we always welcome. We feel assured of being instructed, of acquiring some new facts and new ideas, and of meeting with some original views on various commercial subjects."

From the Hon. F. O. J. Smith, in the Eastern Argus.

"Hunt's Magazine has now reached the closing number of the fifteenth volume, and it is not unmerited praise to say, that its columns constitute an enduring monument of praise to not only the merchants of the country, but to our country as a whole. Its pages reflect the highest credit upon the mercantile enterprise of the United States, and radiate this credit from them upon the country at large, where their homes are located and their operations are planned. But to the political economist and statesman-to every politician, in fact, of enlarged theories, the work is most essential and invaluable. And to find it upon the book table of the merchant, especially, even upon his parlor centre table, to the exclusion of trashy publications of a day's celebrity only, would go farther, in the view of a reflecting mind, to establish his credit in the market, and to secure for him substantial esteem, than the display of a service of silver plate, or even gold spoons and candlesticks, rivalling those which our Ex-President was accused of having, yet may never, in fact, have possessed. It is so emphatically the book of the merchant, and of every man who aspires to an enlarged knowledge of mercantile transactions in our own country, and abroad, that, as properly might a clergyman be expected to officiate statedly in the pulpit without a Bible, as a merchant to be found in his counting room without Hunt's Magazine. It may, but ought not to be so."

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From the New York Evening Post.

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"After the political monthlies, we take up Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, which forms a good transition between the political and the purely literary periodicals. It is, however, only necessary for us to say, that the industrious and accomplished editor maintains its reputation as the best statistical publication in this country. To commercial men it seems to us that it must be invaluable."

HUNT'S

LIBRARY OF COMMERCE,

PRACTICAL, THEORETICAL, AND HISTORICAL.

BY FREEMAN HUNT,

EDITOR OF THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL SOCIETY; MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS OF N. YORK, BOSTON, BALTIMORE, LOUISVILLE, ETC.

Extracts from the Preface to the first volume of the Library of Commerce. "One of the leading characteristics of the present age, is that of the conden sation of human knowledge, by which its several branches are presented to us, not only divested of all circumlocution and verbiage, but which, while it unites the resources of the past with the additional illustrations derived from modern improvements, at the same time supplies a more available medium for the purposes of popular instruction, as well as of general reference. To a country like our own, so essentially commercial, few topics are more important than those which relate to mercantile affairs. The multiform and varied character of com

merce, so all but exhaustless in its resources-its close relation with, and influence upon, political and domestic economy-and its still more intimate connection with the productive arts, as well as with the theory and practice of banking establishments, the currency, &c., render it a subject of universal and paramount interest.

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"Besides containing original and elaborately written works of a historical, theoretical, and practical character, by some of the most eminent writers of our own country, the LIBRARY OF COMMERCE will also contain the best selected productions on these subjects from the pens of able writers abroad, some of which will be translated expressly for this work.

"Relying, therefore, on the same liberal support which has been extended to the Merchants' Magazine, to which the present series is intended as a sequel or accompaniment, the editor trusts it will be found, at least, not inferior in its claims to the notice of his subscribers; and in the full confidence of such approval, he now ventures to submit the first volume to their inspection.

"Should adequate encouragement be extended to the enterprise, a volume of between three and four hundred pages, handsomely bound, will be published semiannually, at one dollar per volume, payable on delivery. It will be left at the option of subscribers to the first volume, to take or refuse the subsequent volumes of the series.

Volume I. of the "Library of Commerce" embraces three distinct works, viz.: I. SKETCH OF THE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE OF THE WORLD WITH CHINA. II. HISTORY OF THE BRITISH CORN LAWS. By J. C. PLATT, with additions by the American Editor,

III. MEMOIRS OF COMMERCIAL DELUSIONS: EMBRACING SKETCHES OF THE MISSISSIPPI SCHEME AND THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE. BY CHARLES MACKAY, Esq.

The whole forming a handsome volume of 342 12mo. pages. Price $1, neatly bound. For copies of the "Library of Commerce," apply at the office of the Merchants' Magazine, 142 Fulton street, New York."

We subjoin a few favorable notices of the plan and execution of the work.

From the New York Commercial Advertiser.

"HUNT'S LIBRARY OF COMMERCE, VOL. I.-The Editor and Proprietor of Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, is doing an essential service to the commercial world by the publication of this library, the full value of which may not, perhaps, at first, be recognized, but will, in such a thoroughly commercial community as this, be appreciated eventually. We want-and the need has been felt much among intelligent merchants-a book for reference on the history and principles of general commerce; something that may be appealed to by Americans as an authoritative record of the origin and progress of the various branches of trade-their peculiar features and bearings; a proper, condensed, authentic Commercial Library,' which, at moderate cost, may be accessible to merchants who have not yet the benefit of long experience to guide them."

From the Brooklyn Daily Advertiser.

"The first volume of the Library of Commerce has made its appearance in the form of a handsome duodecimo, of nearly four hundred pages, the first of a series of volumes, devoted to the paramount interests of commerce.

jects embraced in this volume, are

"I. Sketch of the Commercial Intercourse of the World with China. "II. History of the British Corn Laws, and the Corn Trade.

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"III. Memoirs of Commercial Delusions: embracing Historical Sketches of the Mississippi Scheme, and the South Sea Bubble.

"We have not space or time to enter into an elaborate review of these works. Our purpose at this time, however, is merely to furnish our readers with an outline of Mr. Hunt's plan, as developed in the volume before us. The works embraced in this volume, appear to present full, and, at the same time, comprehensive views of the several subjects discussed, and have more of the historical, than the theoretical. Its practical bearings are broad and quite apparent. It appears to be the aim of Mr. Hunt, to do for American commerce what Mr. Sparks is doing for American history and biography, by bringing together, in a compact body, the raw materials that are scattered, fragmental and unembodied-to furnish whatever is of practical, theoretical or historical value, in a convenient and tangible form, for the every-day use of the merchant and statesman. The ability displayed in the conduct of the Merchants' Magazine' since its commencement, now nearly eight years, has given an authority to the labors of Mr. Hunt, in this branch of literature, that is acknowledged and appreciated by the leading minds of our age, not only at home, but throughout commercial Europe. Efforts to elevate the commercial character, and to dignify commerce to a science, such as Mr. Hunt has chosen to make, are alike creditable to him and the community in which he resides; to the latter in so far, at least, as they aid his efforts and extend the required encouragement. That they are, in a degree, entitled to this commendation, may be inferred from the fact, that he has been able to devote six years to the single pursuit of forming a sort of commercial literature. We have reason to know that his labors are highly appreciated abroad, and that the Magazine is quoted in foreign circles connected with the administration of European legislation and commerce, as undoubted authority on all matters touching the resources of our country.”

Letter from Samuel S. Randall, Esq., Deputy Superintendent of Common Schools for the State of New York, and author of several valuable works.

ALBANY, July 20, 1846. DEAR SIR-I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the first volume of your "LIBRARY OF COMMERCE," for which, please accept my best thanks. Judging from the specimen before me, the prosecution of the undertaking to dif fuse a more general knowledge of the principles and details of the mercantile profession, especially among the young, cannot fail of rendering a signal service to the community in which we live: and I trust you will meet with that liberal appreciation of your valuable and enlightened labors in this behalf, which they certainly deserve. While commendable efforts for the dissemination of practical information in nearly every other branch of science and industry, are in successful progress, the claims of commerce cannot, safely or consistently, in my judgment, be overlooked. Hundreds and thousands of the rising generation are looking to this great channel, as the means for subsistence and advancement in life. And in an age and at an epoch when the light of science is penetrating into every department of the political and social fabric, those fundamental principles and statistical details which are indispensable to the intelligent tradesman, should be brought within the reach of all who may desire to participate in their advantages. I consider such a work eminently proper for our school libraries, and should be glad to see its introduction into these noble institutions, throughout the State. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, SAMUEL S. RANDALL.

FREEMAN HUNT, Esq.