THE MONTHS ILLUSTRATED BY PEN AND PENCIL. EDITED BY THE REV. S. MANNING, LL.D. The Designs by Noel Humphreys, John Gilbert, Barnes, Wimperis, North, Lee, Sulman, and other eminent Artists. Engraved by Butterworth and Heath. THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY, AND 164, PICCADILLY. 270. .560. "It is truly a most Christian exercise to extract a sentiment of piety from the works and the appearances of Nature. It has the authority of the sacred writers upon its side, and even our Saviour Himself gives it the weight and the solemnity of His example. Behold the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin, yet your Heavenly Father careth for them. He expatiates on the beauty of a single flower, and draws from it the delightful argument of confidence in God. He gives us to see that taste may be combined with piety, and that the same heart may be occupied with all that is serious in the contemplations of Religion, and be at the same time alive to the charms and loveliness of Nature."--Dr. Chalmers. A Winter Sabbath. . . Graham?. . . . The New Year's Bells at Midnight . . . . . Anon. . . Thoughts for New Year's Day . . . . . Bloomfield . . St. Agnes' Eve. . . Tennyson . . A Winter Morning Walk .... Cowper . . . The Woods in Winter . . . . Longfellow . . . “Resurgam” . . . . . .. Krummacher. A Frost Scene . . . . . Miss Mitford : Times go by Turns . . . Southwell The Snowdrop . . . . . . . Keble . . . Winter Walk at Noon.. Cowper . . . . . Hymn for January . . . . . . . . . . . Heber . . . . . MARCH The Gale. . · · · Crabbe . Page . . . The First Buds . . Longfellow . . . The Storm . Bishop Spencer . . . . . . . . . . Early Spring . .. Clare . . . . . Return of March. Bryant . . . . . 7. Moultrie . . . The Skylark . . . Wordsworth . . . The Skylark. . . . Hogg . . . . . On Gladness in Spring . . . . . . . . Addison . . . . . The Reviving Influence of Spring . . . . . Akenside . . . . Hymn for March . . . . . . . . . . . Cowper . . . . Violets . . . Keble . . . . . . . . . APRIL. Spring. : ... Chaucer, modernized by Warton Lessons of Returning Spring .. N. P. Willis . . . Keble . . . . . Tennyson .. Dyer . Young Lambs. . . . A Valley in Spring-time . Coleridge . . . Spring Flowers . . . . George Herbert . The First Swallow · · · · · · · · · · C. Smith . . . . . Early Piety ... . . Heber . . . . . . . . The Day of Flowers . . . . . . . . . . Hemans . . . . . The Lily of the Valley . . . M. A. Bacon . .. Hymn for April .i . . . . . . . . . “ Lyra Germanica" MAY. W. Browne . . . . Hemans . . . . . “The time of the singing of birds is comę". . Izaak Walton . . . The Hawthorn . . . . . . . . . . . . . W. Browne . . . May Garlands . . . “Lyra Innocentium”. The Cuckoo. . . Logan . . . . . An Evening in May. . . . . . . Izaak Walton . . . The Cowslip. . . . . . . Clare . . . . . . The Cowslip. . . . . . . . . . . . James Montgomery. Field Flowers . . . . . Campbell . . . . . Hymn for May . . . . . . . . . . . . “Lyra Germanica” . . . . . JULY. Sultry Summer . . . . . . . . . . . Clare . . . . . . Melodies of Morning. ... Beattie . . . . . Rain in Summer . . Longfellow . . . . Early Morning in Summer . . . . . . Bernard Barlon . . A July Afternoon . . . . W. Allingham . . . A July Evening . . . . Philip Bailey ... The River and the Rock Isaiah xxxii. 2 . . . Glow-worms . . . . . in the Country" by Willmott The Jasmine . . . . Hemans . . . . . The Jasmine . Bernard Barton . . Summer Days .. . A. K. H. B. . . . The Evening Cloud Wilson . . . . . Hymn for July · ... . . . James Ford . . . . .... . . I19 I 20 120 123 124 I24 126 127 129 129 130 131 131 11 12 AUGUST. Goodness of God in Autumn . . . . . . . Bishop Mant... 135 Autumn Thoughts . . . “ Summer-time in the Couniry" by Willmott 136 Corn-fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Howitt. 139 The Beauties of Nature Evanescent . . . . . Heber . . . . . . 141 The Reapers . . . . . Thomson . i . .. Rydal Water . . . . . . . . . . . . Wordsworth . . . . Rock Pools . . . . . . . . Gosse's " Recreations of a Naturalist” 144 142 143 . SEPTEMBER . . Samuel Martin . . . · · Reminiscences of Switzerland . . . . . . . Rogers The Hour of Death Hemans . . . . Crabbe . . . . |