. Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide. , the veritable P. R.,and that I left Chicago for tlie East,just befi)R Cliiisliuas, the son Robert waswith Stratton, in charge of a school ofseventy five pupils, and Gregory was be-yondpraying for. From Chicago I came to Albany, where,on the first of January, 1857, I opened theBryant & Stratton Albany College. InMarch, ^, I came with Strattou andElihu Burrilt to New York, for the purposeof opening a college aud publishing amagazine. The first step was to attemptto buy out Hunts Merchants Magazine,which, on account of the recent
. Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide. , the veritable P. R.,and that I left Chicago for tlie East,just befi)R Cliiisliuas, the son Robert waswith Stratton, in charge of a school ofseventy five pupils, and Gregory was be-yondpraying for. From Chicago I came to Albany, where,on the first of January, 1857, I opened theBryant & Stratton Albany College. InMarch, ^, I came with Strattou andElihu Burrilt to New York, for the purposeof opening a college aud publishing amagazine. The first step was to attemptto buy out Hunts Merchants Magazine,which, on account of the recent death of therecent proprietor, Frecnian Hunt, was forsale. Two obstacles stood in the way, how-ever: first, too much money was asked forit, and second, we had no money to ; instead of buying a goodwill we pro-posed to make one. The magazine was started, and christenedThe American Merchant. Bryaut &Stratton were tho publishers. I was theeditor, and Elihu Burritt was conductor andspecial contributor. This unique publica-. for the people of two continents, and hadrode down Broadway at the head of thelargest and most imposing military andcivic procession this city had he was simply a business man tryingto retrieve his broken fortune through thelegitimate channels of competing trade!The conduct of this man under adversityhas always been an iaspiratiou to me, audI have often held it up as an example toyoung men. The time came at last when it seemednecessary for The Chain to have sometext-books. Mr. Stratton liad already madeovertures to Thomas Jones to write a workon book-keeping. I tdd him I thought hewould make an irretrievable blunder to em-ploy an outsider and a competitor to do hiswork of authorship; that if it couldnt bedone in the chain the sooner the chainresolved itself into its separate links thebetter. He at once challenged mo to under-take the work, and all unfitted as I wjis, Iaccepted tho challenge. The running oftho New York College was pu
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