Next in importance to the bronzes, we esteem the collection of Sicilian, or Græco-Sicilian vases, though inferior in number and selectness to those of the Vatican, or Museo-Borbonico. There is also some ancient sculpture, and some pretty mosaic. Of this composition is a bathfloor, where a family of Cupids, in the centre of the pavement, welcome you with a _utere feliciter_, (may it do you good.) Round the border, a circle of the personified _"months"_ is artistically chained together, each bearing his _Greek_ name, for fear of a mistake--names not half so good as Sheridan's translation of the Revolutionary calendar--snowy, flowy, blowy--showery, flowery, bowery--moppy, croppy, poppy--breezy, sneezy, freezy. In Catania, we find no lack of coins, nor of sharp-eyed dealers, who know pretty generally their value throughout Europe; but, in order to be quite sure of the price _current,_ ask double what they take from one another, and judge, by your abatement of it, of the state of the market elsewhere. Now mind, sir, when they present you the most impudent forgeries, you are not to get into a passion; but, glancing from the object to the vender, quietly insinuate your want of _absolute_ conviction in a _"che vi pare di questa moneta."_ He now looks at it again, and takes a squint at _you;_ and supposing you smell a rat, probably replies that certainly he _bought_ it for _genuine;_ but you _have suggested a doubt,_ and the piece really begins, even to _him_, to look suspicious, _"anzi à me."_ You reply coolly, and put it down--"That was just what I was thinking;" and so the affair passes quietly off. And now you _may_, if you happen to be tender-hearted, say something compassionate to the poor innocent who has been _taken in_, and proceed to ask him about another; and when you see any thing you long to pocket, enquire what can he afford to let a _brother collector_ (give him a step in rank) have _it_ for; and so go on feeling your way, and never "putting your arm so far out that you cannot comfortably draw it back again." He will probably ask you if you know Mr B---- or C----, (English collectors,) with whom he has had dealings, calling them "_stimabili signori;_" and, of course, you have no doubt of it, though you never heard of them before. It is also always conciliative to congratulate him on the possession of such and such rare and "_belle cose;_" and if you thus contrive to get into his good graces, he will deal with you at _fair prices_, and perhaps amuse you with an account of such tricks as he is not ashamed to have practised on _blockheads_, who will buy at any cost if the die is fine. Indeed, it has passed into an aphorism among these _mezzo-galantuomini_, as their countrymen call them, that a fine coin is always worth _what you can get for it._