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OCT. 1 3. St, Edward, king and conf. a. d. 1066. 

 SS. Faustus, Januarius, and Martialis, mm. 304. 

 St. Cohnan of Ireland, martyr, 1012. 

 St. Gerald of Aurillac, 909. 

 Seven Friars Minor, martyrs, 1221. 



Olts. The happiness of the reign of St. Edward the Confessor is itself a 

 panciryric of his virtue. St. Edward was nursed in the wholesome school of 

 adversity, the mistress of all virtues to those who make a right use of it. His 

 character from his youth was the agcfregate of all Christian and moral virtues. 

 William of Malmesbury asserts that King Edward performed several miiacu- 

 lous cures. A woman had a swellint' in her neck, was admonished in a dream 

 to address herself to the king; he washed the ulcerous sore, and blessed it with 

 the sign of the cross, after which the patient was healed. Hence was derived 

 the custom of our kings touchin<r for the cure of that species of scrophulous 

 tumour called the King's-evil. Edward calmly expired on the .5th of .January, 

 in 106d, having reigned twenty three years, six months, and twenty seven days) 

 in the sixty fourth year of his age, sincerely regretted by his subjects. 



SS. Faustus, Januarius, and Martialis, are called by Prudentius the Three 

 Crowns of Cordova, where they suS'ered martyrdoni for the Catholic couse 

 ia 804. 



Autumnal Helenium Helenium autumnale full fi. 



Grapes now ripen in such profusion and with such almost interminable varie- 

 ties, depending on soil, climate, and original stock in ditlerent countries, that we 

 are reminded of Virgil's lines on their sorts, to which we have before alluded : 

 Nam neque quani niultae spei i"S, nee iiomina quae sint, 

 Est nnmerus, neque enim nuinero coniprf ndere refert. 

 Qucm qui scire velit, Libycivelit aequoris idem 

 Dicere quaiu multae zephyro turbentur aienae : 

 Aut ubi naviiriis volentior incidit Burns, 

 Nosse quot louii veniant ad littora ductus. 

 The Hopgardens in England and Flanders, and the vineyards of Spain, 

 France, and Italy, now afford picturesque scenes from the number of persons, 

 men, women, and children, employed in the gatherinj of them, which task is 

 often finished with a sort of rusti: festival that reminds us of Virgil's line : 

 Jam canit extrcmos eti'oetus vinitor antes. 

 The country begins now to ring with the music of Hounds, particularly in 

 neiffhbourhoods where many paclis of Harriers and Heagles are kept, whicti 

 reminds us of the lines : 



We will, fair queen, up to the mountain's top. 

 And mark the musical contusion 

 Of Hounds and Echo in conjunction. 



I was with Hercules and Cadmus once. 

 When in a wood of Crete they bayed the bear 

 With hounds of Sparta: never did I hear 

 Sucli gallant chiding; for, besides the groves, 

 The skies, the fountains, every region near 

 Seemed all one mutual crv : I never heard 

 So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. 



From having constantly amused ourselves with our pipe earlv in the morit- 

 inff, we have discovered and are enabled to point out an almost itifallit)le me- 

 thod of judging of good scent. When the Tobacco smoke seems to liang lazily 

 in the air, scarcely sinking or rising, or moving from the place where it is 

 emitted from the pipe, producing at tile same time a strong smell, which lasts 

 some time in the same place alter the smoke is apparently dispersed, we may 

 ou that day be sure that the scent will lay well. 



