bes a thunder-storm, in which Cel[)a]don and Amelia
are overtaken. The thunder growls, the lightnings flash, louder and
louder crashes the aggravated roar, "convulsing heaven and earth." The
maiden, terrified, clings to her lover for protection. "Fear not, sweet
innocence," he says. "He who involves yon skies in darkness ever smiles
on thee. 'Tis safety to be near thee, sure, and thus to clasp
protection." As he speaks the words, a flash of lightning strikes the
maid, and lays her a blackened corpse at the young man's feet. The poem
concludes with the more peaceful scenery of a summer's evening, when the
story of Damon and Musid[=o]ra is introduced. Damon had long loved the
beautiful Musidora, but met with scant encouragement. One summer's
evening he accidently[TN-165] came upon her bathing, and the respectful
modesty of his love so won upon the damsel that she wrote upon a tree,
"Damon, the time may come when you need not fly." The whole book
contains 1804 lines.

3. In "Spring" the poet describes its general features, and its
influence on the vegetable and animal world. He describes a garden with
its harem of flowers, a grove with its orchestry of song-birds making
melody in their love, the rough world of brutes, furious and fierce with
their strong desire, and lastly man tempered by its infusive influence.
The book contains 1173 lines.

4. In "Autumn" we are taken to the harvest-field, where the poet
introduces a story similar to that of Ruth and Boaz. His Ruth he calls
"Lavinia," and his Boaz "Pal[=e]mon." He then describes partridge and
pheasant shooting, hare and fox hunting, all of which he condemns. After
luxuriating in the orchard and vineyard, he speaks of the emigration of
birds, the falling of the sear and yellow leaf, and concludes with a
eulogy of country life. The whole book contains 1371 lines.

[Asterism] It is much to be regretted that the poet's order has not been
preserved. The arrangement of the seasons into Spring, Summer, Autumn,
and Winter, is unnatural, and mars the harmony of the poet's plan.

=Seatonian Prize.= The Rev. Thomas Seaton, Fellow of Clare Hall,
Cambridge University, bequeathed the rents of his Kislingbury estate for
a yearly prize of [pounds]40 to the best English poem on a sacred
subject announced in January, and sent in on or before September 29
following.

Shall hoary Granta call her sable sons....
Shall these approach the Muse? Ah, no! she flies,
And even sp