[51] Even then, the price is what in Great Britain would be considered small. The American Review pays two dollars (8s. 8d.) a page, and some of the other periodicals from a dollar to a dollar and a half.

[52] It is hardly necessary to expatiate on the absurdity of this fallacy. Every man who reads any thing better than newspapers, finds frequent use for his classics in the way of explaining quotations, allusions &c., while nothing can be imagined more utterly useless in every-day life than Conic Sections and Differential Calculus, to any man not professionally scientific. But because arithmetic is the introductory branch of mathematics, and also the foundation of book-keeping, it is thought that working a boy at mathematics will make him a good man of business.

[53] On one occasion, when a converted priest was lecturing against Romanism, the Courier and Enquirer recommended the intervention of that notorious popular potentate Judge Lynch, who intervened accordingly.

[54] These attempts at undue influence and direct intimidation are not confined to the natives; foreigners are very quick at catching them. This very winter an Italian musician endeavoured to expel one of the editors of the Courier and Enquirer from his concert-room, because that paper had not seen fit to praise him so much as others did, or as he himself wished and expected.

[55] "The Mary Ann Greens."

[56] It may be worth while to insert here a copy of the American advertisement of the April Number, in which a denunciation of American piracy, which had been inserted in an article on the "Model Republic," is actually put forward as a puff of the reprint.

Blackwood's Magazine
FOR APRIL, will be published TO-MORROW MORNING.
CONTENTS.

I. Cromwell.
II. Lays and Legends of the Thames—Part III.
III. Letters on the Truths contained in Popular Superstitions, No. 2—Vampyrism. No. 3—Spirits, Goblins, Ghosts.
IV. A New Sentimental Journey.
V. The Fighting Eighty-Eighth.
VI. Lord Sidmouth's Life and Time.
VII. How they manage Matters in the Model Republic.
VIII. Horæ Catalinæ—No. 2.
IX. Lessons from the Famine.

Extract from the article on the "Model Republic":—

"When these malignant pages arrive in New York, every inhabitant of that good city will abuse us heartily, except our publisher. But great will be the joy of that furacious individual, as he speculates in secret on the increased demand of his agonized public. Immediately he will put forth an advertisement, notifying the men of 'Gotham' that he has on board a fresh sample of British Insolence, and hinting that, although he knows they care nothing about such things, the forthcoming piracy of Maga will be on the most extensive scale."