turalist, who lately contemplated the trees bs in all their beauty of outline, foliage, , colours, and lights and shadows, must emplate them in their ramifications, sprays, barks, in which he will still find abundance y and wonder. s the light leaf whose fall to ruin bears F. HEMANS. The w of our forest trees which are called 'deciduain their foliage until late in the spring, espehen shooting from old stools in woods and - where they furnish a comfortable shelter for of the small birds during the night, and a for the owl by day, as boys well know. and oak, are the most remarkable of this The leaves of the common elm now strew the in profusion, and we trample over the rustling without noticing any thing remarkable. But examine the leaves attentively, we shall find a spot attached to many of them, which, upon submitted to the microscope, will prove to be f the numerous race of fungi, arranging as ia xylomoides.—See our last volume, p. 282. Virginia-creeper (hedera quinque-folia) is parrly rich and beautiful in the autumnal months, its leaves of every hue, from a bright to a dark and deep crimson. at highly-esteemed fish the salmon now ascends s to deposit its spawn in their gravelly beds, at eat distance from their mouths. he stock-dove (columba anas), one of the latest er birds of passage, arrives from more northern ons, towards the end of this month. The females young of the brown or Norway rat now leave their holes at the sides of ponds and rivers, to which they had betaken themselves in the spring, and repair to barns, out-houses, corn-stacks, and dwellings. See T. T. for 1817, p. 338. Moles now make their nests, in which they lodge during the winter, and which are ready for depositing their young in the spring. These are distinguished by being of a larger size than the common mole-hill, and are lined with dried grass, leaves, &c. The woodman repairs to the woodlands to fell coppices, underwood, and timber. Some particulars of forest scenery, in this month, are noticed in T. T. for 1818, p. 297. Of an American forest, the author of the Backwoodsman, quoted in our last volume, gives a most faithful delineation. We are at once transported to the boundless forest green' impervious to the fervid rays of a summer sun;-and wrapt in twilight gloom,' we traverse the chill, dreary, and lifeless wood; where No sportive zephyr ever stirred, And not a solitary, widowed bird Abided in the deep, impervious shade, Or mid the boughs his mournful music made; Or pale, unfragrant, wild flower; The brood of sunshine held no revels there, The farmer usually finishes his ploughing this month. Cattle and horses are taken into the farmyard; sheep are sent to the turnip-field; ant-hills are destroyed; and bees are put under shelter. The gardener sows peas and beans in a warm situation for an early crop, if happily they may survive the frosts of winter. Violent storms of wind are not uncommon in October and November, but the partial injury which they occasion is amply compensated by the benefits derived from them in purifying the atmosphere'. In ου g a 01 p l 0 y for November 1820 (p. 292), we have able of the velocity of the winds, as well as nt of a dreadful tempest which happened th of November, 1703;-as a companionour readers are requested to accept the foleautiful lines by a poet whom we have never t with pleasure, and whose popularity will be extended by any praises that we can yodaid en A STORMY NIGHT. TO It is a stormy night, and the wild sea 16 ogbui hason id of his In DECEMBER 1822. In ons 2.-ADVENT SUNDAY. i ogov HIS and the three subsequent Sundays which ede the grand festival of Christmas, take their e from the Latin advenire, to come into; or from word adventus, an approach. o ni ga od 03 *4. 1820.-SAM. ROUSSEAU DIED,73 uthor of several works on oriental literature, wers of Persian Literature, Dictionary of Moham medan Law, Persian and English Vocabulary, &c. &c. besides many dictionaries and other useful publications. For his knowledge of the antient and oriental languages, he was indebted solely to his own industry and application during the leisure hours of his profession, which was that of a printer, while serving his apprenticeship in the office of Mr. Nichols. 6. SAINT NICHOLAS. Nicholas was Bishop of Myra, in Lycia, and died about the year 392. He was of so charitable a disposition, that he portioned three young women, who were reduced in circumstances, by secretly conveying a sum of money into their father's house. The annual ceremony of the boy-bishop, once observed on this day, is described at length in T. T. for 1814, p. 306. 8.-CONCEPTION OF THE VIRGIN MARY. This festival was instituted by Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, because William the Conqueror's fleet, being in a storm, afterwards came safe to shore. The council of Oxford, however, held in 1222, permitted every one to use his discretion in keeping it. 13.-SAINT LUCY. This virgin martyr was born at Syracuse. She refused to marry a young man who paid his addresses to her, because she had determined to devote herself to religion, and, to prevent his importunities, gave her whole fortune to the poor. The youth, enraged, at this denial, accused her before Paschasius, the heathen judge, of professing Christianity; and Lucy, after much cruel treatment, fell a martyr to his revenge, in the year 305. 16.-0 SAPIENTIA. This is the beginning of an anthem in the Latin service to the honour of Christ's advent, which used to be sung in the church from this day until Christ mas eve.. 21. SAINT THOMAS THE APOSTLE. Thomas surnamed Didumus. or the Twin was Je bu TH sa in 0 a di in all probability a Galilean. There are passages in the gospel concerning him. s said to have suffered martyrdom in the , being killed by the lances of some people by the Bramins. the shortest day, and is, at London, 7 h. S.; allowing 9 m. 5 s. for refraction. is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of e past is gone, the future is not come, and nt becomes the past, even while we atdefine it, and, like a flash of lightning, at sts and expires. Time is the measurer of 3, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand of all things, but is itself undisclosed. Like C is incomprehensible, because it has no d it would be still more so if it had. It is scure in its source than the Nile, and in its on than the Niger; and advances like the tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent. wings of lightning to pleasure, but feet of pain, and lends expectation a curb, but ena spur. It robs Beauty of her charms, to chem on her picture, and builds a monument but denies it a house; it is the transient and 1 flatterer of falsehood, but the tried and end of truth. Time is the most subtle yet t insatiable of depredators; and, by appearke nothing, is permitted to take all; nor can tisfied, until it has stolen the world from us, from the world. It constantly flies, yet overall things by flight; and although it is the ally, it will be the future conqueror of death. he cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, tern corrector of fools, but the salutary coun-f the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, they desire to the other; but, like Cassandra, as us with a voice that even the sagest distoo long, and the silliest believe too late.' |