... Flora weeps o er weak returning lifts:— The sun, in clouds enshrouded, hides his And Spring with Winter still holding Does Nature note the bent of human wrong, And answer prodon with a tearful blight? Mid wail of woe and death, refrain from song, And veil ...

... LARKS OR SPARROWS? larks are now often in the ninu. They make, in (ruth, a delicate meat. but. asks Nature Note*, is it agreeable with Selbornian feeling to eat them ? They are being consumed by tens of thousands, and are rapidly diminishing in numbers ...

... Irrigation Department, a complete story by Aiice Perrin ; Editor's Serap-book—Poetry and the Pollee ; and A November Nature Note.' The issue is splendidly illustrated. Tun CENTURY MAGAZINE—(price Is 4d) Macmillan and Co, Bedford-street, London —A new ...

... NATURE NOTES. [BY ARTHI'R MEE. F.R.A B.J CUCKOO AND RAIN. A correspondent of the Border Counties Advertiser rails attention to a peculiar Welsh saying which runs as follows:—It is going rain, for the cuckoo stammered last night. It would be interesting ...

... NATURE NOTES. IKY ARTHI'R MEK. F.R.A.S.] THURSDAY ECLIPSE. R;adrr* who are astir early Thursday inan.ing will the opportunity of observing an eclipse of the sun. It will Mnall certainly, !,ut the only one he kind visible in Wales this yea* - . one-fifth ...

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... his garden to jee his feathered friends. Among- friends sa privileged was Mr James Siartin, who tells the ■eader.s of Nature Notes that the blackbirds, ;h: ushes, tits, sparrows, pigeons, &c., would hover bout the kind old gentleman, perch OIL his hat ...

... A DOG STORY. A Cumberland norreepondonfc, writing to Nature Notes, vouches for the correctness of this delight- ful little dog ,tory:-A farmer, who lives somo miles from Carlisle, went to market by tram. Somehow his dog failed to enter the carriage. It ...

... SPIDER SWALLOWING ITS WEB. A correspondent writes to Nature Notes Early in September some friends of mice saw a garden spider (one with white marks on its back) make a web large enough to cover one pane of tfee dining-room window. Ib was a beautiful spider ...

... FROGS IN BIRDS' NESTS. A correspondent relates a curious thing in this month's Nature Notes. We have, says E. A. M. of Marlborough, made a curious) discovery in our garden. Some frogs have taken up their abode for the last month in two deserted blackbirds' ...

... POCKET CYCLOP/EDIA, on. • BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO TLIE ARTS AND SCIENCES. loeluding riporwatioos of some of tho Phenomena Nature ; Notes A . Chostooes for Efona , • Forming a separate work, and soppleinent to other worke, particolarly to a Brief In ...

... little white innocent-faced lambs gambolling by their side, the objeots of tender solioitude to those mothers. A writer in Nature Notes for this month tells a pretty story of a mother with twin blObs, one of which seemed quite different from the other. He ...