To Correspondents. Observations on the appearances of Nature in every month, in England, as well as in different parts of the world, especially in North and South America, will be very desirable; and accounts of obsolete or existing customs, and sketches of neglected or contemporary biography, will be always acceptable: these should be addressed to the Editor, to the care of Messrs. Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, Paternoster Row, London; and transmitted before the 1st of July 1828. M m If one train of thinking be more desirable than another, it is that which regards the Phenomena of Nature, with a constant reference to a SUPREME INTELLIGENT AUTHOR. PALEY. When Spring unlocks the flowers, to paint the laughing soil; No, let the year forsake his course, the seasons cease to be, BISHOP HEBER. Natural History is no work for one that loves his chair or bed. Speculation may be pursued on a soft couch, but Nature must be observed in the open air. I have collected materials with indefatigable pertinacity. I have gathered glow-worms in the evening, and snails in the morning; I have seen the daisy close and open; I have heard the owl shriek at midnight, and hunted insects in the heat of noon. JOHNSON. Abo, fire at, 389 Advent, custom in, 319, 320 African marigolds, 253 sketches, 188 FOR 1828. Bell-flower, 179 Approach of Winter, a Sonnet, Belladonna, 181 April explained, 83 25, note fish, 83 Apricot, 102 Ben-Nevis, 213 Benger, Eliz. O., 10 Birds, lines on, 133 nests, 97 Birth-days, 1, 398 Kings, day of, 9 Blaps mortisaga, 101-obtusa, ib. Blue-bottle, The, a sketch, 211 Bonneval, customs at, 46, 48, 62, Bowring, Mr. 32, 76, 110, 159, 360 Clarence, H. R. H. Duke of, 195 Bulbs in water-glasses, manage- Clear frost, a sonnet, 30 Bryony, 134, 160 Buck-wheat, 181 ment of, 295 Cliffs of Dover, a poem, 341 Climbing Boy, a poem, 109 Close of the Year, lines on, 386 Coleoptera, 101 Della of Blackwood's Magazine, Dignum, Charles, 67 Dionysia, 310 Distant Ship, a poem, 343 Dog-days, 170 rose, 160 Domesday, Introduction to, 389- Flower-de-luce, 164 391. Dragon-fly, 100, 161 Dreux, custom at, 355 Drummond, Dr. First Steps to Duck-meat, 182 Early Morning; a sonnet, 137 Easter Monday, 36-ceremony at 85, 86 glasses, 296 Flowers, time of their appearance, Fly-catcher, spotted, 127 Foolish women, 45 Fools, feast of, its origin, 2 week, customs in France, Foxglove, 161 Tuesday, 86 France, customs in, 2, 3, 8-10, 11, Elizabeth, Q. particulars of, 270- Frost, a continued one described, 137, 395 Giraffe, 198 scene, 187 Glow-worm, 130 Gnats, 34 Evening. a poem, 95—a sonnet, Gifford, William, 360 star, lines on, 156 Fair of St. Gilles, 220 Faux, Mr. 72 February, explained, 35 Goatsucker, 127 Golden-green beetle, 161 Goldfinch, 75, 210 |