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Title: The Humbugs of the World
An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries,
Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages

Author: P. T. Barnum

Release Date: September 18, 2008 [EBook #26640]

Language: English

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Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of corrections
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THE

HUMBUGS OF THE WORLD.

AN ACCOUNT OF HUMBUGS, DELUSIONS, IMPOSITIONS,
QUACKERIES, DECEITS AND DECEIVERS
GENERALLY, IN ALL AGES.

BY

P. T. BARNUM.

"Omne ignotum pro mirifico."--"Wonderful, because mysterious."

NEW YORK:
_CARLETON. PUBLISHER. 413 BROADWAY._
1866.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by

G. W. CARLETON,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of
New York.

PUBLISHER'S NOTE.

One of Mr. Barnum's secrets of success is his unique methods of
advertising, and we can readily understand how he can bear to be
denounced as a "Humbug," because this popular designation though
undeserved in the popular acceptation of it, "brought grist to his
mill." He has constantly kept himself before the public--nay, we may say
that he has _been_ kept before the public constantly, by the stereotyped
word in question; and what right, or what desire, could he have to
discard or complain of an epithet which was o