. The young lady's library of useful and entertaining knowledge : intended as a holiday or birth-day present. Alp* •.>.v, Cntwrirnre .M^ Aiit:ii<t .ir J 1 4 Fraternal Lotr 2I-. . airt Diity . «I7 CO!<TENTS. Autumn - - - A Suttee, or UiiruintC of a lliodix) Widow Ilily Srpulclire at Jeriiiwleni AiHtiihtlitrK* The UrliKeti, or North American Klk of a Crimiiul wi the Isliud* Thr Royal Humane Society Tlie Curfew - Vegetablet (ilaM Novrmlxr /.*KiloKy . or the Natural «>f AmiiuU II*«tmK» CajrtU. Stiiwx - Winter liKtory rt
. The young lady's library of useful and entertaining knowledge : intended as a holiday or birth-day present. Alp* •.>.v, Cntwrirnre .M^ Aiit:ii<t .ir J 1 4 Fraternal Lotr 2I-. . airt Diity . «I7 CO!<TENTS. Autumn - - - A Suttee, or UiiruintC of a lliodix) Widow Ilily Srpulclire at Jeriiiwleni AiHtiihtlitrK* The UrliKeti, or North American Klk of a Crimiiul wi the Isliud* Thr Royal Humane Society Tlie Curfew - Vegetablet (ilaM Novrmlxr /.*KiloKy . or the Natural «>f AmiiuU II*«tmK» CajrtU. Stiiwx - Winter liKtory rtn»eut I»,ity toward* Friends towards Inferiors Dreanw and Aiiparitiou* December The (\)nver«ion of St Paul Shrove Tuesday Pmlra Sunday MauncUy Thursday IX P«ge 231238242243247 r>i ^»3 2t3l 260 2tW 274 279 281 2K3 284 289 202 2f>4 :u>3 MiS 307 310 312 ; 317 320 325 331 336 336 YOUNG LADYS LIBRARY;. JANUARY Is the first month in the year, aeeording to the Christianmethod of computation, and it is also the coldest of thetwelve. It derives its name from the Heathen god Jauus,to whom the Romans dedicated this portion of the year, B and who was by them rcproscnted with two faces; the onf,thul of nn old man, Ixini; typical • of his | of Ur\rAsi; and tlic other, a youthful countenance, denoting ;pruspcit of the future. The Pagan mytholosry describes Janus as the god ofgatrs and avt-nues, and iCl new undertakings; and he wa<»di-1ineatc-d with a key in one hand, and a staflin the other,the symbols of his opening and governing the year. Some-times he bore also in one hand the number 300, and intlu- otlier •>, being the number of days in a year. Onother oceasions, his image was made withybiir heads, an«lerected in a square temple, having a door and three windows in each of it^ four sides, as emblematical of the fourseasons anti their twelve months. The z
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