re seen in a Catholic church.
Sam Weller, I believe, or if not he, some modern philosopher of
his school, defines the movement I have just described as meaning
something like 'This may be all very true, but we don't believe a
word of it.' What the Mexicans thought of it, or whether they
noticed it or not, I am unable to say: it may be that they
considered it as simply 'a way' the Texans had, and thought no
more of it. Such is the story told of the pranks played by the
prisoners confined in Puebla.'

We must here end our notice of this amusing book. It will be found highly
entertaining, and to contain also much information concerning the
character of the country through which Mr. KENDALL passed. It will attain
a wide popularity, for it is decidedly the best and most readable book of
the season. . . . SINCE the foregoing was placed in type, we learn from
Mr. KENDALL'S journal, the well known New-Orleans '_Picayune_,' that the
tyrant SALAZAR, whose cruelties are recorded in preceding extracts, met
recently with an awful death. He escaped from prison at Santa Fe, and fled
to the woods, where he was killed and scalped by the Indians, and his body
left a prey to wild beasts. Just retribution!

ADDRESS AND POEM, DELIVERED BEFORE THE MECHANIC APPRENTICE'S LIBRARY
ASSOCIATION on the twenty-second of February. By FREDERICK W. LINCOLN,
Jr., and GEORGE COOLIDGE. Boston: THE ASSOCIATION.

The inculcations of both these performances are excellent; and in a
literary point of view, they are also highly creditable to their authors.
Mr. Lincoln supports the necessity and dignity of labor with unanswerable
argument and felicitous illustrations. Much, says he, in a few segregated
sentences, 'has been written, with truth and eloquence, by great minds,
upon the dignity of labor; but it is the dignity of _the laborer_ which is
the vital point that demands attention. Labor or industry needs no
apology, no advocates; it is the very instinct of our being, and one of
the first to develop itself; it is only when performed in a peculiar way,
or associated with a particular class, that it is considered disreputable.
How is this evil to be remedied? Not by assuming a superiority, but by
_attaining_ to it. You have it in your power to make the profession of a
mechanic as honorable as any avocation in life. The dignity of a
profession depends upon the character of those who are in its ranks. If
the individual