. The essays of Leigh Hunt. es a dish of them, if we donot. With these considerations, we should be well contentto recognise the concordla discors that harmonises the inani-mate creation. If it were not for the East-Wind in thiscountry, we should probably have too much wet. Ourwinters would not dry up ; our June fields would be im-passable : we should not be able to enjoy the West-Winditself, the Zephyr with its lap full of flowers. And uponthe supposition that there is no peril in the East-Wind thatmay not ultimately be nullified, we need not trouble our-selves with the question, why the dang
. The essays of Leigh Hunt. es a dish of them, if we donot. With these considerations, we should be well contentto recognise the concordla discors that harmonises the inani-mate creation. If it were not for the East-Wind in thiscountry, we should probably have too much wet. Ourwinters would not dry up ; our June fields would be im-passable : we should not be able to enjoy the West-Winditself, the Zephyr with its lap full of flowers. And uponthe supposition that there is no peril in the East-Wind thatmay not ultimately be nullified, we need not trouble our-selves with the question, why the danger of excessivemoisture must be counteracted by a wind full of the excesses of the elements will one day be pastime,for the healthy arms and discerning faculties of discoveringman. And so we finish our vituperations in the way in whichsuch things ought generally to be finished, with a discoverythat the fault objected to is in ourselves, and renewedadmiration of the abundance of promise in all the worksof AUTUMNAL COMMENCEMENTOF FIRES How pleasant it is to have fires again ! We have nottime to regret summer, when the cold fogs begin to forceus upon the necessity of a new kind of warmth ;—a warmthnot so fine as sunshine, but, as manners go, more English get together over their fires, as the Italiansdo in their summer-shade. We do not enjoy our sunshineas we ought; our climate seems to render us almost un-aware that the weather is fine, when it really becomes so :but for the same reason, we make as much of our winter,as the anti-social habits that have grown upon us fromother causes will allow. And for a similar reason, thesouthern European is unprepared for a cold day. Thehouses in many parts of Italy are summer-houses, unpre-pared for winter ; so that when a fit of cold weather comes,the dismayed inhabitant, walking and shivering about with AUTUMNAL FIRES 21 a little brazier in his hands, presents an awkward image ofinsufficiency and perplexit
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