112 EASTER TIDE, 



APRIL 21. St. Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury, 

 A.D. 1109. 

 St. Herluin, Ven. abbot. 

 St. Anastasius the Sinaite, anchoret, 678. 

 St. Anastasius I. patriarch of Antioch, 598. 

 St. Anastasius the Younger, 610. 

 St. Beuno, abbot of Clynnogin Caernarvonshire, c. 

 St. Eingan, c. St. Malrubius, 721. 



Obs. St. Anselm was born in Piedmont, He was abbot of Berk, 

 and afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury. He was esteemed for 

 his profound knowledge of human nature. 



St. Malrubius led an austere monastic life in the mountainous 

 country of Abur Crossain, in the county of Pross in Ireland, when 

 certain Norway pirates landing there in 721 ; for attempting to 

 preach Christ to them, he was massacred by them with many wounds, 

 in the eighteenth year of his age, probably on the 21st of April, his 

 festival in Connought. 



Cypress Narcissus Narcissus orientalis albus lowers. 



This plant now blows out of doors, with many others of a similar 

 sort. Most of these plants have been figured in Curtis' Botanical 

 Magazine, and the Horticultural Society of London have in their 

 garden a great number of pretended species, but we suspect that 

 the real species, if such a thing as distinct species do really exist in 

 nature, which is doubtful, are much less numerous than is commonly 

 imagined. 



The Wryneck Jynx Torquilla heard daily. 



This bird is called the Cuckoo's mate, merely from coming and 

 being heard uttering a very distinguished cry about the same time of 

 year. The brown and tawney on the back of this bird are beauti- 

 fully mottled, and it receives its name of Torquilla from its manner 

 of contorting its head when searching for insects on the boughs and 

 stems of trees. 



We shall resume today our notices of the Cuckoo by inserting the 

 following lines : 



The Cuckoo, from Graham's Birds of Scotland. 



How sweet tlie first sound of the Cuckoo's note ! 



Whence is the niiiaic pleasure of the sound ? 



How do we lonfT recall the very tree, 



Or hush, near which we stood, when on the ear 



Tlie unexpected note, (nckoo ! again, 



Aud vet ag.iin, canie down the buddin? vale ? 



It is "the voice of Spring anions the trees ; ^ 



It tells of lenutlicniug days, of coming blooms ; 



It is the syniphouy of many a song. 



