Text: C. F. Briggs (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), March 8, 1845, vol. 1, no. 10, p. ??

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The Gambler's Mirror. Vol. 1. No. 1. Boston, Redding & Co., 1845.

Gambling unmasked, or the Reformed Gambler, designed as a warning to the young of this country. New-York. Burgess, Stringer. & Co., 1845.

An Expose of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling, Second Edition, improved. Boston, Redding & Co., 1845.

These books have already obtained a wide popularity, and we trust a profitable circulation. They detail the personal experience of their author, Mr. J. H. Green, who is doing essential service to the cause of humanity by his labors in a field which has long remained without the husbandman, though it has been many years white for the harvest. — There are few besides those who suffer from gambling who know to what a fearful extent the vice prevails among us; at the west, where society has not been put into a strait-jacket, it shows itself openly and fearlessly, and the mischief it produces may only be faintly irn-agined from the bare reports of its effects, such as the extempore execution of half a dozen “Sportsmen” at Vicksburg a few years since, that reach us in the newspapers. Occasionally in New York we hear of a defaulting clerk, or a bankrupt merchant, whose ruin has been produced by this dreadful vice, but the greater part of the misery and crime which arc caused by it are attributed to other causes. Every father who has a son just entering upon business should put one of Mr. Green's books in his hand, and every merchant when he first receives a new clerk into his employment should see that he has a copy of the “Miseries of Gambling.”