English Merchant's Wife Priced by a
Mandarin 507
Executorship of Mr. Astor's Will 518
Experience of a Levantine Merchant 474
Extravagance of French Bankers in Pri-
vate Life 478
Female Members of the Rothschild Family 516
Francis Baring at the Virginia Inn 467
Freaks of Wealthy Merchants 515
Friend Coate's Management of Girard. .. 483
Garden of a French Stock Broker 508
Gastronomic Feats of a Merchant 472
German Merchant of One Hundred Houses 475
Gideon, the Jew Broker, Catechising his
Child 511
Gideon Lee and his Library 480
Girard and the Beggar 489
XXV111
CONTENTS.
Girard's Reception of Mr. Baring 474
Girard's Treatment of " Splendid Church "
Projects 494
Girard's Will the Item about Ministers 515
Glut in the Market 471
Going to get Acquainted with his Family 474
Goldschmid's Comforting Sort of Hoax. . 506
Grand Scheme Disclosed in McDonogh's
Will 506
Groceries and Literature 511
Halifax, the English Banker's Opinion of
" Lending to the Lord ;" with a
Personal Application 516
Hancock, the Patriot Merchant 483
Home Luxuries of Ancient Merchants .... 507
Hospitality of Stephen Girard 502
Household Magnificence of Partinqua, the
Great Chinese Merchant . 498
Household Peculiarities of Girard 510
Incidents of William Bingham's Domestic
Life 519
Italian Banker's Bargain for a Fish 477
Jewish Banker's Free Table 481
John J. Astor's Board and Clothes 483
John McDonogh's Personal Appearance.. 491
Judah Touro and Dr. Clapp 490
Last Days of Business and Financial Cele-
brities 495
Lawrence's, Amos, Opinion of Marriage.. 484
Looks and Manners of Rothschild 492
Lorillard and the Load of Wood 499
Louis d'Ors and Ruxors; or, Bankers and
Barbers 479
M. Rothschild at Home 503
Magnificent Residence of Rothschild in
Paris 479
Making a Will Samuel Appleton 471
Mansion of Morris, the Philadelphia Fi-
nancier 488
Marriage Suit by Colston, the Millionnaire 480
Matrimonial and Financial "Bonds" in
John Law's Time 517
" Merely a Family Dinner" 468
Mr. Girard and the Baptist Clergyman... 489
Mr. Vanderbilt's Holiday 503
New Orleans Broker Renouncing a For-
tune 484
Nicholas Longworth's Bread 514
" Old Ben Russell " 488
Old-school Merchant's Offering to his
Country : John Langdon, of New
Hampshire 512
One Among Ten Thousand 487
Out of Fashion 515
Palace of Lafitte, the French Banker. .. 467
Parlor Talk between James Rothschild,
the Banker, and the Poet Heine 504
Personal Appearance of Stephen Girard. . 464
Philanthropic Courage of Girard 512
Pleasant Parlor Voyages 481
Polly Kenton and Girard's Doctcrs 476
Practical Eloquence of a Boston Merchant 512
Rekindling of the Old Spark 497
Religious Bearing of Judaism on Stock
Operations: the Perieres 515
Religious Opinions of Girard 490
Reminiscences of Mr. Astor's Library Be-
quest 516
Retiring from Business "Melting Day" 515
Returning a Favor 500
Robert Barclay becoming a Banker in-
stead of a Courtier 502
Rothschild's Purchase of a Painting 481
Samuel Appleton's Disposition of his In-
come 489
Samuel Slater on Extravagance in Living 513
Scene at a Banker's Dejeuner: Robert
Morris and his Father 469
Settling a Knotty Account Quaker Philo-
sophy 500
Seventy- five Thousand Dollars at One
Draught 4S4
Signora Almonastre and John McDonogh 493
Sir Thomas F. Buxton's Conversations
with Rothschild 501
Slightly Personal 466
Sportive Death of the French Banker, M.
Dange 514
Stephen Girard's Treatment of " Splendid
Church " Projects . 494
Stock Broker and his Family in the Studio
of Hoppner 475
Sturgis, William, in the Legislature 473
Suspected Religious Fidelity of Roths-
child: Remarkable Scene 490
Taking Care of his Umbrella 492
Tavern Waiter and his Banker 4S7
That Little Child in the Counting Room. . 514
The Merchant and his Distinguished
Valet, John Philpot Curran 476
The Merchant Family of Medici, Resurgnm 498
"The Stone that was Rejected :" Judah
Touro's Benefactions 482
Thirty Thousand Dollars' Worth of Sleep
by a Boston Merchant 470
Thomas Gresham's Curious Armorial or
Crest 508
Too Much Money 473
Under Medical Treatment Jacob Barker
as a Patient 482
Unfortunate Polly Lum, the Wife of
Girard 469
Unparalleled Will of Thelluson, the Lon-
don Banker 485
W. B. Astor and his Clerical Classmate. . 471
Wealthy Men Imagining Themselves Poor 492
Wedding Gift of Rothschild to his Ni^ce 509
Why Guy, the Millionnaire, never Married 501
Will of Guyot, the French Millionnaire.. 472
William Sturgis in the Legislature 473
CONTENTS.
XXIX
PART X.
ANECDOTES OF CHANCE DEALINGS AND VENTURES.
AUCTIONS, FANCY STOCKS, SHARE COMPANIES, LOTTERIES, AND QUIXOTIC SPECULATIONS ;
WITH SKETCHES OF WONDERFUL COMMERCIAL DELUSIONS, FINANCIAL MANIAS, BUB-
BLES, PANICS THEIR CAUSES, ABETTORS, INCIDENTS, VICTIMS, AND RESULTS.
A Trade, and a Wager Won 555
Allaying a Panic 537
Atkinson the Eccentric Speculator 542
Auction Sale of Old Furniture, &c., Extra-
ordinary 570
Auctioneering in England and America. . 537
Bacon by the Shilling's Worth 560
Bargain Hunters at Pawnbrokers and
Auctions.... 567
Bank Notes at Ten Cents a Yard 531
Bidding on Girard's Old Chaise 536
Bold but Calamitous Speculation of John
Guest 580
Burlesque on Modern Business Utopias.. 528
Buying his own Goods at Auction 530
" Candle " Auctions 552
Caricature of Commercial Speculations... 551
Character displayed in Auction Dealings 557
Chronicles of " the Black Day " in London 541
Cigars at Public Sale 577
" Crack Horses " at Auction 572
" Down with Your Dust ! " 525
Dutch Tulip-Mania of the Seventeenth
Century 567
Dutchman's Gold in a Safe Place at Last 551
Earliest American Sale of Books, by
Catalogue, at Auction 552
Early Stock Jobbing and Lotteries 558
English Railway Mania of 1845 562
Fancy Hen Fever 564
Female Strategy to obtain Bubble Stock. 527
Financial Use of Saints 528
First Book Auction in England 531
Foundation of the Friendship between
Coates and Girard 582
Furor for Chartered Companies 541
Getting-up a Money Panic 566
Globe Permits 570
" Going Going GONE ! " 539
Gold-making and Silver-mining Compa-
nies 564
Good Speculation Lost in Chicago Lands 550
Grand United Gold and Diamond Dust
Company 560
"Great Spec" on the Tapis .524
Hogarth's Plan of Selling Pictures by
Auction .. 531
Jack, and the Dutch Tulip Speculator... 523
Jacob Keen, of Wall Street 565
John Law's Notorious Bubble 555
Jonathan Hunt's Land Speculations 534
Keen Auction Dodge by Rembrandt 557
Last Resort for Petroleum Companies. . . 576
Last Word at an Auction : a Lady in the
Case 535
Lessons of an Auctioneer's Hammer. ... . . 561
Lord Castlereagh and the Ruined Broker 558
Lotteries Vindicated by Scripture 566
Lottery Vagaries in the Sixteenth Cen-
tury 559
Marking a Lottery Ticket 533
Memorable Auction Sale in New Orleans 556
Merino-Sheep Bubble 568
Missing a Good Chance 581
Mock- Auction " Capitalists," 550
Mr. Barker's Auction Watch, and What
it Brought Him 543
Mr. Hume's Anxiety to avoid a Pecuniary
Loss , 533
New York Pawnbroker's Customer 526
Old Digby at an Auction Sale 548
Old Martin, the Scotch Auctioneer, among
the Languages 571
One of the Sufferers 563
Origin of Auctions 560
Our American Land Fever 546
" Our Lady of Hope " 534
Panic Blunders Wrong Certificate at the
Bank 524
Parisian Auctions : How Conducted 557
Paterson and his Darien Expedition 547
Perils of Stock Gambling: William Abbott 537
Peruvian Loan Infatuation 546
Pleasantries of Keese, the Book Auctioneer 572
Proposed Ice Speculation 564
Quite Professional 567
Reasons given by Thomas H. Perkins for
Declining a proposed Coffee Specula-
tion 578
Red Herrings and Dutch Onions 578
Rival Blacking Companies 563
Rise and Reminiscences of the Trade Sales 579
Satire on Speculation 546
Scenes at a Turkish Auction 548
XXX
CONTENTS.
Scraps of Auction Wit 574
Selling a Dying Horse under the Hammer 588
Selling the Gem of the Collection 554
Share Sellers and Rope Dancers 577
South Sea Schemers 545
Speculative Frenzy of the French in John
Law's Time 524
Stock-Jobbing Bubbles Commercial Lu-
nacy 545
Stray Leaf from a Speculator's History.. 553
Syrian Auctioneers Harage ! Harage !
Harage ! 554
" Tattersall's " 534
The Waterloo of Auction Battles 525
Tonti's Money Raising Projects 558
Trade between Fly wheel and Singecat... 549
Universal Bed and Bolster Mart 570
Very Hopeful Investment 540
Virtue of One-Pound Notes in Stopping a
Bank Run 565
Virtuous and Touching Appeal of an Auc-
tioneer 532
Wager between a Stockbroker and a Cap-
italist 536
Warranty of Perfect Soundness 562
Weathering the Storm of 1828 573
Winking and Bidding at Auctions 552
Winners and Losers in Grant's Bubble. . . 534
PAET XI.
ANECDOTES OF CURIOUS TRADES AND OBJECTS OF TRAFFIC.
NOVEL BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS; BUYING, SELLING, BARTERING AND SHOPKEEPING, CHAR-
ACTERISTIC OP DIFFERENT COUNTRIES; RUSES, JEUX D'ESPRITS, AND DROLLERIES.
Adam and Eve Leading on in Trade G01
American Customer at a Turkish Bazaar 598
Bad Operation in Leather 586
Bargaining by Pantomime Trade in
Camels 603
Barnum Buying the American Museum
with Brass 589
Batavian Trade in Birds' Nests 627
Before and Behind the Counter 585
Boy Traders in Moscow 590
Chartier, the Leech Merchant 592
Chatham Street Clo' Dealers 618
"Cheap" and "Dear" 596
Chiffonniers, or " Rag Merchants," of Paris 589
Chinese Shopkeepers 619
Coleridge and the " Ogh Clo' " Man 590
Commercial Dignity at the Apple Stand 619
Commercial Value of Insects 593
Day & Martin's Precursors 591
Dealing in " Orrd Things " 601
Eastern Trade in Ostrich and Bird-of-Par-
adise Feathers 588
Egyptian Mummy Trade 592
English Idol Manufacturers 587
Exportation of Scotch Periwinkles 602
Fancy Stoves and Imaginative Customers 626
Florentine Flower Girls 626
Flutes w Pistols 618
" Four-and-twenty Self-sealing Envelopes,
Fo-oo-ur Cents " 608
French Toads an Article of Commerce. . . 600
Funny Commercial Transaction All Round 604
; Genoese Merchants and French Peddlers 610
" Glass-pteen !" 619
Goods for a " Private Venture " 615
Great " Shaving" Operation in a Banker's
Office 612
Grindstones by the Fraction 625
Grocers and Bank Presidents 624
Human Hair as an Article of Merchandise 620
Italian Marriage Brokers 591
Itinerant Traders in Rio Janeiro 615
Jew Traders in Holy well Street 611
Jolly Sign Painters : Rich Professional
Tragedy 605
Logan, the Fan Painter 605
Losing a Good Customer 621
Making the Best of a Bad Article 624
Matrimonial Export 599
Men Manteau Makers 611
Mengin, the French Pencil Seller 586
Mercantile Agency Management Illus-
trated 603
" Mighty Monarch, Let Me send a Shop !" 623
Mike Schnapps, the Fiddle Dealer 600
National Characteristics of Money Getters
French, Irish, Scotch, German 595
Native Traders in Guinea 622
New Material for Sausage Stuffing; the
'.' Sauciesse d'Or " 612
Nothing Like Sarsaparilla 612
Nothing Lost in a Good Market 617
CONTENTS.
XXXI
Odd Purchase at a Grocer's 617
Old Women's Trades in London 593
One of the Branches of the Tea Trade. . . 623
Orthography behind the Counter 626
Paris " Gratteurs " 607
Parrot and Monkey Market 61G
Patent Medicine Makers Morrison, Bran-
dreth, Townsend, &c 609
Paying by the Clock instead of the Thing 598
Peculiarities of the Northwest Fur Trad-
ers 599
Poor Kind of Ice 593
Portuguese Diamond Merchant's Bargain
with Philip the Second 587
Praying and Trading Simultaneously. . . . 621
Puzzling an Apothecary 624
Queer Bartering in Northern Africa 601
Kealizing a Profit 598
Kemarkable Customs of Oriental Shop-
keepers 597
Kichardson, the Eccentric Showman 620
Russian Shop Customs 606
PAGE
Saint Shops 607
Scale of Prices for London Civilities 5D7
Settling a Question of Trade 603
Shipments of Butcher Birds 596
Shop Architecture, Old and New 616
Shopkeepers of Bagdat 610
Snow Trade of Sicily 599
Song-Bird Shops in New York 623
St. Petersburg Trade in Frozen Articles. 622
Street Merchants 594
Tea Shops in China 602
The Miller and his Portrait 605
Tong-Chow Traders in Dogs and Cats 618
Traffic in Beautiful Circassian Girls 588
Traits of the Shop in Havana.' 586
Trials of Egg Merchants 617
Turkifh Fez bops ; Stationers, Tailors,
and Jewellers 602
Viper Merchants 588
Vocation Peculiar to China; Gossip at
Fifty Cents per Hour 607
Wigs by the Cargo 597
PAET XII.
ANECDOTES AND CHRONICLES OF MSURANCK
ITS PIONEERS, VARIETIES, CURIOUS KATES, TERMS, SUBJECTS; HUMORS, FANCIES, AND
EXCESSES ; NOTABLE CASES OP Loss AND ADJUSTMENT ; CARICATURES, PUNS, RAIL-
LERY, ETC.
PAGE
Adjusting an Insurance Loss 648
Augerstein, the Great English Under-
writer 632
Apt Illustration of a Principle 638
Assessments in Old Times 645
Companies for Insuring Female Chastity,
Children's Fortunes, &c 633
Curious Inconsistencies in Insuring Life 643
Daniel Webster's Insurance Anecdote... 646
Examining an Applicant 643
Exciting Life of an Underwriter 641
German Idea of the Thing 649
High Compliment to W. R. Jones as an
Underwriter 662
Insurance for Husbands 635
Insuring Dr. Lieb's Life 631
Introduction of Marine Insurance 632
Jacob Barker's Insurance Case Redivivus 636
Juvenile Evidence in an Insurance Case 652
Leaving a Case Out 642
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PAGE
Life Insurance Obituary Announcements. 644
Life and Death Brokers and their "Humble
Servant " 637
Lively Operations 650
Marriage and Baptism Insurance 644
Oddities of a Former Period 638
One of the Companies 634
Origin of Fire Insurance Companies 640
Pitt, the Insolvent Premier, Insured by
his Coachmakers 637
Playing a Bold Game 649
Policies and Tragedies 642
" Poor Tim Rooney " 643
Porcelain Jars and Low Premiums 631
Protective Tariffs and the "Genesee
Mutual " 653
Romance and Reality of Insurance 635
Taking his Own Risk 651
Terrible Mode of Rendering an Insurance
Policy Void 638
XXX11
CONTENTS.
The United-Glass-and-Crockery Insurance
Company 635
tounding Policies on the Chevalier
d'Eon's Sex ! . . 645
Traffickers in Insurance Run Mad As- j Underwriters and Napoleon's Life 637
PAET XIII.
ANECDOTES OF BUSINESS EMPLOYES.
CASHIERS, CLERKS, SALESMEN, ETC. ; BOOKKEEPING, ACCOUNTS, PRICES AND VALUES, COR-
RESPONDENCE, SHOP TALK TRIALS AND MISERIES, BLUNDERS, FACETI.E, WAIFS AND
STRAYS.
Advantage of Skilful Bookkeeping 695
Amos Lawrence when a Clerk. , 661
Apprehended Embezzlements 676
Bank Clerks and their " Friends " 684
Ben Lippincott, Girard's Clerk 689
Best Part of a Grocer's Business 694
Betty Starkey and Coutts's Clerk 694
Bookkeeping in Former Times 685
Brief Biographical Sketch of a Banker's
Clerk 662
Broadway Clerks Japonicas and Sweet-
hearts 658
Bubble Bank Bookkeeping Taught in Six
Lessons 665
Caledonian Adroitness 659
Charles Lamb, as a Clerk 691
Charming Customer in a Bank : Perils of
a Cashier 680
Chickering and his Employes, on "Blue"
Day 681
Commercial " Drummers," or Travelling
Clerks 678
Correcting an Erroneous Entry 698
Cost of a Nap on the Ledger 687
Countryman and Clerk 668
Dexterity of Specie Clerks 677
" Done Brown " 697
English Bank Clerk's Finesse 658
Fancy Costume among the Ledgers 662
Filling a Grocer's Order 677
First Set of Double-Entry Books Opened
in Boston 663
Fitz Greene Halleck's Clerkship with Ja-
cob Barker 657
French Female Plot against a Clerk 682
George Simpson's High Reputation as a
Cashier 700
Getting Rich by Bookkeeping 672
Good Supply in Prospect 667
Hitting the Nail on the Head 677
How a Drygoods Clerk Lost His Place. . . 670
Humors of Partnership in Reference to
Names 695
Identifying a Clerk 696
Improving a Banker's Broth 676
In Business for Themselves 697
In Pursuit of an Agreeable Business 661
Introducing a New System of Accounts. . 698
Irving and the English Salesman 697
Jacob Barker's Clerks at Dinner 663
Keeping Accounts in Guinea 686
Keeping Score by Double Entry 679
Lady's Portrait of a Drygoods Clerk 690
Lafitte's Wasteful Clerk 681
Language and Business Letters of Roths-
child 669
London Trade Report 675
Misfortune Tending to Liberality 684=
Moustaches in the Bank 667
Nice Lesson for Retail Salesmen 665
Obtaining a Clerkship in a Banking
House 687
Oiling the Joints of Business 671
" Old Salles," the Silk Buyer, and Mr.
Bayard's Clerks 693
One of his " Little Specs," 668
" One Thing Needful " in a Clerk 664
Overpaying a Clerk 664
Pen Portrait by an Old Master 659
Perplexities of Mercantile Correspondence 693
Philadelphia Clerk and his Bible 670
Pictorial Bookkeeping 671
Placing the Pen behind the Ear 686
Playing Even 666
Precision in Keeping Accounts 657
Quaker Investigation of Accounts 692
Railway Clerks a Burlesque 666
Ready for a Trade 696
Reason for Trusting a Clerk 683
Reforming instead of Destroying 672
CONTENTS.
XXXlll
Kefusal to become Girard's Clerk : Telling
Him the Reason Why 683
Remarkable Discernment of Mercantile
Character 692
Remarkable Sacrifice for Principle 658
Reward of Business Fidelity 691
Reward of Promptness in a Merchant's
Clerk 671
Rich Enough to Retire : Abraham New-
land, Cashier of the Bank of England 700
Rich Reward of Integrity 667
Ruin Produced by Bad Reckoning 677
Sample Clerk Wanted in a Drug Store... 689
Saying of an Old Merchant 609
Scissors vs. Shears 687
Serious Bargain for a Clerkship 682
Shipping Goods by Ticket 698
Shocking Ignorance of City Clerks Illus-
trated 684
Simple Entries and Calculations Jacob
Barker's Method 660
Singular Mode of Keeping Accounts in a
Pair of Boots 692
Squaring Accounts among the Celestials 669
That Bottle of Wine among " Old Fuller's"
Clerks 694
The Prose of Shopkeeping set to Poetry 687
Too Conscientious an Accountant 683
Trying his Hand at the Accounts 699
Two Clerks in a Quarrel 674
Unexpected Promotion 696
Waste Book and Ledger their Meaning 686
What is a "Flemish" Account? 662
Wife of a Merchant's Clerk... .... 683
PART XIV.
ANECDOTES OF SOME OF THE OCCUPATIONS AUXILIARY TO COM-
MERCE AND MERCHANDISE.
EDITORS, PUBLISHERS, BOOKSELLERS, THE MANUAL OP INDUSTRIAL TRADES, ETC. ; WITH
UNIQUE INCIDENTS OF BARGAIN AND SALE, LUDICROUS ADVENTURES, HAPS AND MIS-
HAPS BUSINESS FREAKS, GENIUS, APTITUDE, NOVELTY AND RENOWN, ETC., ETC.
PAGE
"A Roland for an Oliver" 714
A Tailor for Many Years 734
Affidavit by an Apothecary 742
Almanac Making: Fortunate Wit 711
America's First Printed Book 723
An Emperor Blowing a Blacksmith's Bel-
lows 743
Answering a Tailor's Dun 714
Apt Speech by a Carpenter 737
Archaeological Tailor's Measures 713
Attempt to Print a Perfect Book 747
Austen, the Famous Metal Founder 748
Balance of Trade ; or, Beauties of Compe-
tition 719
Barbers' Chairs 730
Ben Russell, the Printer : Exciting Scene 737
Benjamin Franklin as a Bookseller 727
Billingsgate Market Dealers 723
Bookmaking a Trade 736
Books and Music 755
Books and Newspapers in China 705
Breaking and Waxing the " Thread". . . . 753
Breeches without a Body 755
Business Mistakes of Publishers 729
Butchers' Blue Blouse or Frock 712
Buying a Saddle 734
PAGE
Buying Shoes and Sermons 751
Byron's Genoese Tailor 714
Canine Newsdealer. 715
Chinese Barbers 730
Classification of N ewspaper Readers 724
Commercial Value of Dramatic Litera-
ture 715
Compliment to Wharfingers 742
" Concerned in Trade " .^ 709
Copy of a Painter's Bill .* 707
Country Bankers 735
Derivation of Names of Trades 711
Dignity Conferred by the Blacking Busi-
ness 755
Dowse, the "Literary Leather Dresser" 751
Dr. Johnson in the Capacity of a Reporter 726
Dryden Describing his Publisher 749
Earliest Newspaper in the English Lan-
guage 750
Editors in a Hard Fix 741
Eminent Shoemakers 752
English Almanacs First Issue 739
English Perruquiers before the King 708
Errors of the Press 744
Explaining the Philosophy of Trade 756
" Extras," &c 724
XXXIV
CONTENTS.
PAGE
Facetiae for Shoemakers 750
First Newspaper in America 721
First Newspaper in the World 749
Forfeits in a Barber's Shop 730
Franklin and the London Printer 717
Freaks of the Hairdressing Trade in
France 718
German Book Fairs 738
Greatest Reportorial Feat 745
Hatter's Present to a Judge 742
Hitting his Trade 712
" Honor and Fame from no Condition
Rise" 712
" Hopping " from Obscurity 742
Humors of a Reporter 740
Button's Success as a Bookseller 735
Incorrect Editions of the Bible 732
Iron Merchant and the Blacksmith 711
Johnson and his Dictionary 726
Johnson and the Butcher 707
Juvenile Bookseller's Wit 711
Knight's, Charles, Reminiscences of the
Book Trade 753
Lawyers and Barbers 725
Learning the Saddler's Trade 720
Lee, the Learned Carpenter, in England.. 736
" Letting Out " Clothes 713
Lord Eardley's "Gentleman" Applicant 757
Ludwick, the Baker-General, in the Revo-
lutionary War 759
Millionnaire Butcher of London 724
Miners' Commandments 748
Modern Newspaper Office 744
Moses as an Engraver 731
Mr. Gales Reporting Mr. Webster 722
Musicseller's Customers 705
Napoleon's Opinion of a Journalist 708
Need of Reference for a Tailor 717
Newspaper Publisher Described 715
Nothing like Leather 717
Obtaining a Copyright 726
Old English Ticker 743
Olde%t Daily Newspaper 721
One of the largest Book Establishments in
the World 753
" Our Editor " Sixty Years Ago 709
Partridge's Almanac making 718
Patriotic Hatter 720
Paying a Newspaper Bill 732
Paying the Diver 756
Payment for News 713
Peculiar Custom of a Tailor 713
Penny Newspapers in America 708
Perils of Reporting the Parliamentary
Debates 725
Placard Printing in Vienna 717
PAGE
Price of Akenside's " Pleasures of the
Imagination " 727
Printed Books; or, the Devil and Dr.
Faustus 732
Printers and Editors at Midnight. 720
Prize Won by Stephenson for his Famous
Locomotive 758
Proby, the Reporter 716
Professional Use of Books 749
Profitable Book Job 747
Profits of a Stall 724
Property in Books 739
Publisher's Generosity to an Author 729
Pun on a Cooper 742
Pushing Business 730
Quaker Hatter and his Journeyman 710
Queer Phases of the Butcher Trade 707
Rare Editorial Philosophy 741
Rather a Puzzling Occupation 739
Reason why Pitt's Great Speech was not
Reported 745
Report of a Lord's Speech 710
Reporting from Memory 741
Rising in the World 716
Rival Publishers 727
Rivalry in Business Beneficial 710
Roman Saint Making Shoes 751
Sale of Noted Works and Plays 719
Samuel Wheeler, the Iron Smith, and
General Washington 759
Scotch Cabinetmaker's Apprentice 723
" Shall I Cut ?" 714
Shipbuilding in Ancient Times 743
Shoemaker Benefiting the World 712
Shoes and Shoemakers Facetiae 746
Shooting a Bookseller 747
Showing Up Tailors 722
Sir Robert Peel's Factory Operative 727
Son of an Eminent Turkey Merchant.... 749
" Spanish " 734
Sticking to the Contract , 737
Tailor Turned Prophet 733
The First Color Shop 706
The Learned Blacksmith 731
Theatrical Debut of a Barber 708
Tonson, the Literary Trader 706
Too Awkward to be a Watchmaker 743
Trades and Genealogies 760
Trading in News 733
Ungrateful Publisher 722
Verbatim Reporters 745
Wholesale Joke upon Shoemakers 738
Willing to Swallow the Joke 756
Wimprecht, the Blind Bookseller 706
Wit of a Gravestone Maker 731
Would not Stoop 757
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PORTRAITS Oft STEEL.
GEORGE PEABODY.
SAMUEL SLATER.
ABBOTT LAWRENCE.
ALBERT GALLATLN.
JOHN JACOB ASTOR.
T. DOWSE.
CORNELIUS W. LAWRENCE.
STEPHEN GIRARD.
ROBERT FULTON.
NATHANIEL BOWDITCH.
ROBERT MORRIS.
ERASTUS CORNING.
PHILIP HONE.
HENRY GRINNELL.
WILLIAM APPLETON.
DAVID LEAVITT.
R. G. SHAW.
JOHN GRIGG.
CORNELIUS YANDERBILT.
THOMAS
ROBERT L. STEVENS.
WALTER R. JONES.
FITZ GREENE HALLECK.
CHARLES LAMB.
NATHAN MEYER ROTHSCHILD.
WASHINGTON IRVING.
PETER COOPER.
W. F. HARNDEN.
T. W. PERKINS.
NICHOLAS BIDDLE.
JAMES G. KING.
JACOB BARKER.
PETER C. BROOKS.
THOMAS P. COPE.
JEEJEEBHOY DADABHOY.
LORENZO DE MEDICI.
WILLIAM B. ASTOR,
NICHOLAS LONGWORTH.
J. CHICKERING.
TILESTON.
XXXVi LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
WOOD ENGRAVINGS.
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MODERN BANK DIRECTORS* PARLOR, ... 97