Text: C. F. Briggs (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), February 15, 1845, vol. 1, no. 7, p. ??

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HUNT’S MERCHANTS’ MAGAZINE for February.

We omitted, by accident, to mention this excellent periodical in our last week's Review. The present number contains some admirable articles, and a good many valuable tables. One of the most amusing papers that we have read in a long while, is an article on the last Census. It is written in all seriousness, but it reveals a series of blunders, and perverted facts, in the census returns, more laughable than any thing which Punch has uttered during the past year; it proves very plainly that the census is not worth a copper, and that its returns are more likely to be wrong than right. Yet, after all, it is no doubt as correct as any census ever was, or ever will be.