e display of wild beasts. Paine generally sat, taking an airing, at
the lower front windows, the gazed-at of all passers by. Jarvis, the
painter, was often his visitor, and was fortunate enough to secure that
inimitable plaster cast of his head and features, which at his request, I
deposited with the New-York Historical Society. While at that work, Jarvis
exclaimed, "I shall secure him to a nicety, if I am so fortunate as to get
plaster enough for his carbuncled nose." Jarvis thought this bust of Paine
his most successful undertaking as a sculptor.

I shall trespass some moments by giving a few reminiscences concerning
booksellers and publishers. There are many of this professional order,
whose character and influence might justly demand a detailed account.
Spence himself would find among them anecdotes worthy consideration in the
world of letters. I must, however, write within circumscribed limits. The
first in my immediate recollection is Everet Duyckinck. He was a
middle-aged man, when I, a boy, was occasionally at his store, an ample
and old-fashioned building, at the corner of Pearl-street and Old Slip. He
was grave in his demeanor, and somewhat taciturn; of great simplicity in
dress; accommodating and courteous. He must have been rich in literary
recollections. He for a long while occupied his excellent stand for
business, and was quite extensively engaged as a publisher and seller. He
was a sort of Mr. Newbury, so precious to juvenile memories in the olden
times. He largely dealt with that order of books, for elementary
instruction, which were popular abroad, just about the close of our
revolutionary war and at the adoption of our Constitution--Old Dyche, and
his pupil Dilworth, and Perry, and Sheridan. As education and literature
advanced, he brought forward, by reprints, Johnson and Chesterfield, and
Vicissimus Knox, and a host of others. His store was the nucleus of the
Connecticut teachers and intellectual products, and Barlow and Webster,
and Morse and Riggs, found in him a patron of their works in poetry and
their school books. Bunyan, Young, Watts, Doddridge and Baxter, must have
been issued by his enterprise in innumerable thousands throughout the old
thirteen States; and the _English Primer_, now improved into the _American
Primer_, with its captivating emendations, as

The royal oak, it was the tree
That saved his Royal Majesty;

changed to the more simple couplet--

Oak's not as good
As hic