INGENIOUS DEVICE—THE PUFF COLLUSIVE.
EVERY one has heard of the charlatan who, from modesty, eschewing the utterance of his own praises, made his son precede him, exclaim- ing in a loud voice, " My father cures all manner of diseases ; " after which, the quack, strutting behind, solemnly proclaimed, " The boy speaks the truth." The John But is now made to play the boy to the modest daily gen- tlemen of flue press. It says,- " THE COURT JOURNAL—The new Weekly Journal of Fashion appears to have met with extraordinary success. Nearly 12,000 copies of it, we hear, have been already sold. In the number published on Saturday last, were commenced the promised descriptions of the interiors of royal and noble residences, as well as the royal correspondence, being that of Louis XVIII. during his exile in England, which contains his free opinions on various public men, and on the passing occurrences of his time."
The Chronicle, and others, by adopting the paragraph, add, " The boy speaks the truth." This is an example of the puff collusive. The advertisement in the Bali is the authority for the copying journals. Pair !—the offence is rank, and stinks to the Stamp-office.
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