Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), December 27, 1845, vol. 2, no. 25, p. ???, col. ?

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Hunt's Merchants’ Magazine, for December, is one of the very best numbers yet issued of the most decidedly useful of American Magazines. This issue completes the thirteenth volume. The contents are — The Value and Prospects of Life in the United States — The Cotton Trade — The System of Mutual Insurance examined with Reference to the Question of Individual Liability — Maritime Law, Piracy and Financiering — Electricity as the Cause of Storms — The March of Our Republic — The Consular System — Pot and Pearl Ashes — and The Progress of Population in Boston. Besides these papers we have Mercantile Law Cases — Commercial Chronicle — Commercial Regulations, etc. etc. — and several pages of judicious literary criticism. A very commendable point about this Magazine, is its strict nationality. No sectional bias, of any kind, is apparent. It is addressed emphatically to the people of the United States.