After a long cold winter, we joyfully welcome the approach of summer; but, when scorched a few months with its heat, and ready to faint, the return of winter is not so unpleasant to us as it appeared more early in the spring. But whatever effect these successions may have upon us, it is certain they are very beneficial. The light of the day is advantageous for managing the toils and business of life; and the coolness and stilness of the night are as suitable for rest and sleep. The summer's heat is necessary for ripening the fruits of the earth, and hastening the harvest: but the winter's cold and hoary frost are subservient to prepare the earth for the seed, and render it fertile. This dreary season is serviceable both to man and beast;-it gives a new spring and vigour to Nature. Glorious Author of the year, Teach us at thy shrine to bow! When the dove-eyed SPRING looks out SUMMER climbs her noonday height, Wanders through the depth of light— When o'er harvest-waving hill, And on gaily-blossomed heath, When, like some unspotted corse Glorious Author of the year, Dd REV. F. HODGSON. All the succession of Time, all the changes in Nature, all the varieties of light and darkness, the thousand thousands of accidents in the world, and every contingency to every man, and to every creature, doth preach our funeral sermon, and calls us to see how the OLD SEXTON TIME throws up the earth, and digs a grave, where we must lay our sins or our sorrows, and sow our bodies till they rise again in a fair or in an intolerable eternity. Every revolution which the sun makes about the world, divides between life and death; and death possesses both those portions by the next morrow; and we are dead to all those months which we have already lived, and we shall never live them over again.—JEREMY TAYLOR. TO Time's Telescope FOR 1820. For the various SAINTS, see the word. The Roman Numerals Abbott, Abp. 99 A B Baker, William, 132 Accession of king George III, 248- Barrow, Dr. Is. 130 All Fools' Day, 95 Saints Day, 271 America, birds of, described, 64, 90 Anhalt, Prince of, 244 their mode of building, xlv Ascension Day, 131 ASTRONOMICAL OCCURRENCES in Autumn, lines on, 259, 260, 287, Becket, Thomas à, 176 Bede, Venerable, 134 Bees, lines on, 147, 191, xli, xliv, Beetle, lines on, xxxii Birds that sing in the night, 112— song birds found in warm climates, Blackwall, Rev. A. 99 Butterfly, lines to, 146, 206, xiii Calmet, Augustin, 249 Coronation of King George III, 222 Flechier, M. 51 Corpus Christi, 149 Crabs, peculiarity in, liii Cranberries, 188, 189 Entomology, defined, ix---on the Harvest, lines on, 203 English manners, 239 study of, x, xi Ephemera, 169, note Ephemeron-fly, XXXİV Epiphany, 8 Epochs, 58 Erskine, Lord, 86, 88 Evelyn, John, born, 250-died, 52 Everlasting flowers, 313 -- rose, a poem, 315 Fabricius, J. A. 98 Harvest-moon, 226 Hastings, battle of, 240 Thursday, 131 Horse-fly, I Hydrophilus piceus, structure of, Iv | Lammas Day, 198 Hymenoptera, xli I Icebergs, lines on, 42 Invention of the Cross, 129 J January, explained, 1 Janus and Ganesa compared, 1-8 Jessamine, lines on, 174 Joyce, Rev. J. 158 July, explained, 175 Landscape Painters, address to, 17 Leap Year, remarks on, 56 Lobsters, peculiarity in, liii---lines Locust, species of, xvii---lines on, London burnt, 213description of May described, 144, 145 Longest Day, 158, M Mole-hill, reflections on, xlvi N Name of Jesus, 194 Jupiter's satellites, eclipses of, 200, Nativity of B. V. M. 221 283 NATURALIST'S DIARY for Jauuary Nature, economy of, 88 Nepa, genus, a curious aquatic |