And _now_ Father Christmas has at length departed,--but not till the youngsters had got from the merry old man his last _bon-bon_. The school-boy, too, has clung to the skirts of the patriarch's coat, and followed him as far as he could. And farther had _he_ gone, but for a clear and undoubted vision of a dark object, which has been looming suspiciously through the gloom, for some weeks past. He first caught a glimpse of it, on stepping out from amongst the lights of Twelfth-night; but he turned his head resolutely away, and has since looked as little in that direction as he could. But there is no evading it now! There it stands, right in his way, plain and distinct and portentous! the gloomy portal of this merry season, on whose face is inscribed, in characters which there is no mystifying, its own appropriate and unbeloved name,--BLACK MONDAY! And, behold! at the gloomy gate a hackney coach! (more like a mourning coach!)--_Black Monday_, visible in all its appointments, and _black Friday_, looking blacker than ever, this black Monday, frowning from its foot-board! And lo! through its windows, just caught in the distance, the last flutter of the coat-tails of old Father Christmas!-- OUR REVELS ARE, indeed, ENDED! THE END. STANDARD LIBRARY BOOKS SELECTED FROM THE CATALOGUE OF ROBERTS BROTHERS. =Louisa M. Alcott.= Little Women, Illustrated, 16mo, $1.50; Little Men, Illustrated, 16mo, $1 50; An Old-Fashioned Girl, Illustrated, 16mo, $1.50; Eight Cousins, Illustrated, 16mo, $1.50; Rose in Bloom, Illustrated, 16mo, $1.50, Under the Lilacs, Illustrated, 16mo, $1.50; Jack and Jill, Illustrated, 16mo, $1.50; Jo's Boys, Illustrated, 16mo, $1.50. Eight volumes in box, $12.00. Work, Illustrated, 16mo, $1.50, Moods, a Novel, 16mo, $1.50; Hospital Sketches, Illustrated, 16mo, $1.50. =A. Bronson Alcott.= Table Talk, 16mo, $1.50; Concord Days, 16mo, $1.50; Record of a School, 16mo, $1.50; Tablets, with Portrait, 16mo, $1.50; Sonnets and Canzonets, 16mo, $1.00; New Connecticut, 16mo, $1.25. =William R. Alger.= A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life, 8vo, $3.50; The Genius of Solitude, 16mo, $1.50; The Friendships of Women, 16mo, $1.50; The School of Life, 16mo, $1.00; The Poetry of the Orient, Illustrated, 16mo, $1.50. =Joseph H. Allen.= Hebrew Men and Times, 16mo, $1.50; Our Liberal Movement, 16mo, $1.25; Christian History in its Three Great Periods, 3 vols., 16mo, $3.75; Outlines of Christian History, 16mo, 75 cents. =Thomas G. Appleton.= A Sheaf of Papers, 16mo, $1.50; A Nile Journey, Illustrated, 12mo, $2.25; Syrian Sunshine, 16mo, $1.00; Windfalls, Essays, 16mo, $1.50; Chequer Work, 16mo, $1.50. =Ernst Moritz Arndt.= Life and Adventures of Arndt, with Portrait, 12mo, $2.25.