annuated _Tom_, to the blind kitten. The air resounded with
the squallings of the quadrupedal multitude. New venders, with
their noisy property, were seen thronging to the place from every
avenue.

''What'll you _guv_ me for this 'ere lot?' said a tall shad-woman,
pressing up toward the counting-room. 'The newspapers says you
allows liberal prices. I axes a dollar a piece for the old 'uns,
and five levys for the kittens.'

''You have been fooled,' said the chief partner, who appeared with
a look of dismay at the door, and was obliged to speak as loud
amid the din as a sea-captain in a storm. 'I want no cats. I have
no use for them. I could not eat them. I couldn't sell them. I
never advertised for them.'

'A decided mendicant, a member of the great family of loafers,
with a red, _bulgy_ nose, and bloated cheeks, who had three cats
tied to a string in his hand, now mounted a cotton bale, and
producing a newspaper, spelt the advertisement through as audibly
as he could under the circumstances, demanding of the assembly as
he closed, 'if that there advertysement wasn't a true bill?' An
unanimous 'Sarting!' echoed through the crowd. Encouraged by the
electric response, the loafer proceeded to make a short speech. He
touched upon the rights of trade, the liberty of the press, the
importance of fair dealing, and the benefits of printing; and
concluded by advising his hearers to go the death for their
rights, and 'not to stand no humbug.' Such was the effect of his
eloquence, that the firm against which he wielded his oratorical
thunder found it necessary to compromise matters by treating the
entire concourse to a hogshead of wine. 'The company separated at
an early hour,' consoled for the loss of their bargains and the
emptiness of their pockets by the lightsomeness of their heads and
hearts.'

Let us hope that our readers will find, in the entire work from which we
quote, ample reasons for the favor which it is receiving at the hands of
the public.

MENTAL HYGIENE: OR AN EXAMINATION OF THE INTELLECT AND PASSIONS.
Designed to illustrate their Influence on Health and the Duration of
Life. By WILLIAM SWEETSER, M. D. In one volume. pp. 270. New-York: J.
AND H. G. LANGLEY.

This is a work destined, as we can easily foresee, to produce great good.
Its leading design, as its title implies