284 ANGELS TIDE. 



OCT. 10. St. Francis Borgia, confessor, 1572. 



St. Paulinus, abp. of York, 644. 



St. John of Bridlington, confessor, 1379. 



Ohs. St. Francis Borgia was born in 1510 at Gandia, in tiie 

 kingdom of Valencia. He was called Francis on account of his 

 pious mother's devotion to St. Francis of Assisium, and was blessed 

 by God with a great disposition to virtue and capacity for his studies. 

 The loss of his mother in 1520 cost him many tears, but he mode- 

 rated his grief by his entire resignation to the Divine will. His fa- 

 ther and uncle, in order to divert his mind from a religious life, re- 

 moved him from Saragossa to the court of Charles V. in 1528. The 

 empress had so great an esteem for him, that she fixed her eyes on 

 him to marry a Portuguese lady with whom she had been educated. 

 This marriage was solemnized in the most Christian manner, and 

 God blessed them with a numerous and happy offspring, iiy the 

 death of his father the title and honours of Duke of Gandia devolved 

 upon Francis. The duchess died on the 27th of March, 154&, 

 leaving the duke a widower in the thirty sixth year of his age. In 

 the year 1547 he made the first vows of the Society of Jesus, before 

 private witnesses, in the chapel of the college. He continued an 

 example of piety until he closed his holy life by a more holy and 

 edifying death, a little before midnight, between the last of Septem- 

 ber and the 1st of October, in 1572, having lived nearly sixty two 

 years. 



Cape Aletris Veltheimia viridiflora fl. 

 Smooth Golden Rod Solidago laevigata full fl. 



Wild Goose Anser cinereus mio^r. 

 Wild Duck Anas Boscas migr. 



In varions couuties of England, particularly in the fens of Lincolnshire and 

 Cambridgeshire, the flocks of Wild Geese perfoiraing their partial migrations 

 may now be both seen and heard, and often their ilamonr is heard at night, 

 while the birds themselves are unseen. They fly in very curious figures, said 

 often to represent certain letters. 



The advancing season now renders the leaves of most trees of deeper yellow, 

 while the red or russet colour of others, and the green colour of a few which 

 remain verdant till late, together with the dark and blue foliage of various 

 evergreens, renders the landscape still very interesting and picturesque. The 

 soft tints, too, of brown, anil purple, and green, wliich the neaths and forest 

 lands exhibit of an afternoon under the still refulgent skies of autumn, are at 

 this time often remarkably beautiful, and so continue during that period of fine 

 still weather which, beginning often now and continuing till after the 18th of 

 the month, is called in Devonshire St. Luke's Little Summer. The setting in 

 as well as the continuance of this fine time, this last ray of summer, like the 

 weather, is very uncertain : it sometimes begins in the middle of Luke Tide, 

 and lasts till SS. Simon and Jude, or till the feast of Allhallows. It is often 

 preceded as well as followed by cool but westerly gales and intervals of showers, 

 reminding one of Peacock's lines, with which he begins his Genius of the 

 Thames : 



The woods are roaring in the gale 



That wliirls their faded leaves afar ; 

 The crescent moon is cold and pale. 



And swiftly sinks the evening star : 

 High on this mossy bank recliiied, 

 1 listen to the eddying wind. 



