A UNIQUE STORY OF A MARVELLOUS
CAREER.
LIFE OF
Hon. PHINEAS T. BARNUM.
ELEGANTLY ILLUSTRATED
COMPRISING
HIS BOYHOOD, YOUTH, VICISSITUDES OF EARLY YEARS; HIS HERCULEAN
STRUGGLES, BRILLIANT ENTERPRISES, ASTONISHING SUCCESSES, DISASTROUS
LOSSES, NAPOLEONIC TRIUMPHS; HIS RECEPTION BY KINGS, QUEENS, EMPERORS
AND NOBILITY EVERYWHERE; HIS GENIUS, WIT, GENEROSITY, ELOQUENCE,
CHRISTIANITY, &C., &C., AS TOLD
By JOEL BENTON.
Author of "Emerson as a Poet'' and various other works, and for nearly
thirty years a most intimate friend of the greatest of Showmen
EDGEWOOD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1891.
COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY R. B. POLLOCK
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