- Dr. J. M. McLean's Peacemakers. (Baker and Godwin, New
York.) —Dr. McLean, "projector, inventor, and patentee," and Myron Coloney, "mechanical inventor and patentee," are humourists, though the humour which they indulge in is not precisely new. The " Peace- makers" are incredibly destructive machines of war, which would reduce fighting to an absurdity, by the absolute and instantaneous annihilation of the combatants. By these simple means, Dr McLean, "a man of destiny, a great reformer in the highest sense of the word, and a saviour of the tyrannised and down-trodden human race," as we learn from the preface, will bring about the Millennium. Mean- while, he benefits mankind by the humbler instrumentality of his "patent medicine," the which, as we learn from the same authority, ." can now be found in drug stores in nearly every village, hamlet and home in the Western and Southern States."
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