most minor books so published in these days, it is
not worth much.
" Akph" is a retailer of gossip concerning interesting parts of the City, and his papers were doubtless appropriate enough in the columns of the City journal which first gave them to the public. But they are too light and flimsy, too sketchy and familiar, for republication. There is no metal in them. They average about four pages each, and half of this small portion consists of moralizing. When " Aleph" was invited to drink out of an old cup at one of the City Halls he fell to work re- flecting on the many persons whose lips had touched the " beaker " before him. "What and where are they now ? Dust, and for ever divorced from this 'mortal coil.' But we gulped down the saddening thoughts with the good wine," and so on. To "gulp down" much of this
kind of thing is more than we were equal to, but it may please some of the elder citizens. The truth is that diligent inquirers like Mr. Cun- ningham have not left room for writers of the stamp of this gentleman a the City local paper.
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