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Thy sober autumn fading into age, 



And pale concluding winter comes at last 



And shuts the scene." 



MOVABLE SLIDES. 



These of course tell their own story. Now and then, 

 an appropriate recitation can be found for them. 



The swan floating upon the moving waters, for in- 

 stance, may be assumed as illustrating the legend that 

 her first and only song is sung as she floats down the 

 river en her dying day. 



" 'Tis the swan, my love, 

 She is floating down from her native grove, 

 No loved one now no nestling nigh 

 She is floating down by herself to die. 

 Death darkens her eye and unplumes her wings, 

 Yet the sweetest song is the last she sings, 

 Live so, my love, that when Death shall come, 

 Swan-like and sweet, it may waft thee home." 



Spectators, in the limited time given them, can hardly 

 be expected to take in all the details of a complex view, 

 without more or less of this particularizing, which can be 

 resorted to as occasion requires, therefore, in connection 

 with a wide range of subjects. 



SCIENTIFIC SLIDES, Ac. 



The illustrations enumerated in the Scientific Depart- 

 ment, of the appended catalogue, are suited to the text- 

 books in common use. Works on natural history afford 

 descriptions of beasts, birds, fishes, reptiles, and insects. 

 Botany describes plants and flowers. 



The explanations in Wells's Geology, Cutter's Physi- 

 ology, &c., are just as well suited to the corresponding 



