Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . pondents will please to append their own names, orinitials, to their communications, which may be withheldfrom publication if desired; but no notice whatever can betaken of anonymous contributions. BOOKS RECEIVED. The World before the Deluge. By Louis Figuier.(Translated from the Fourth French Edition; , 8vo.,illustrated.) London, Chapman and Hall, 1865. The Book of the Pike. By H. ondon, Robert Hardwicke, 186>. UNDEE THE SNOW. When autumn days grew
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . pondents will please to append their own names, orinitials, to their communications, which may be withheldfrom publication if desired; but no notice whatever can betaken of anonymous contributions. BOOKS RECEIVED. The World before the Deluge. By Louis Figuier.(Translated from the Fourth French Edition; , 8vo.,illustrated.) London, Chapman and Hall, 1865. The Book of the Pike. By H. ondon, Robert Hardwicke, 186>. UNDEE THE SNOW. When autumn days grew pale, there came a troopOf childlike forms from that cold mountain top ;With trailing garments through the air they came,Or walkd the ground with girded loins, and threwSpangles of silvery frost upon the grass,And edged the brook with glistening parapets,And built it crystal bridges, touchd the pool,And turnd its face to glass, or rising thence,They shook, from their full laps, the soft, light snow,And buried the great earth, as autumn windsBury the forest floor in heaps of leaves.—William Ci/llen HE Snowflake, ar-rested iu its descentand transferred tothe microscope, is anobject of beauty,and teeming withmatter for reflec-tion. The land-scape which thetraces during the nightdelicate crystals on the?% window-pane is a mystery tothe child and a marvel to the],tJ man. Here is exhibitedbeauty in combination withpower. Great agents havebeen frost and fire in thephysical revolutions of theworld. How they began, andwhere they will end, let usleave for speculators to dream,and confine our business tothe world as it a nights downfall, asfar as the eye can scan, everywhere lies the makes the leafless trees look elegant, hides thesmoke-dried city garden, and buries all evidence ofthe scavengers neglect. The town is as trim andclean as a chimney-sweep in his Sunday shirt, andthe country one vast tablecloth to which birdsare the only guests. But under the snow l
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