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The Table of Contents for the fourth volume of The Evergreen is organized into different sections. The text pieces are organized into the following fours sections: I. Winter in Nature; II. Winter in Life; III. Winter in the World; and IV. Winter in…

The Table of Contents for the third volume of The Evergreen is organized by different sections. The text pieces are organized into the following four sections: I. Summer in Nature; II. Summer in Life; III. Summer in the World; IV. Summer in the…

story, fiction

3 stanzas, ababab

Folklore

Narrator reflects on the weather; autumn and the coming of winter in Scotland; recounts neighbourhood gossip conveyed by his housekeeper Peggy ; [116] “That, you see, is the way a woman’s eye beholds the changes coming.”

Author's Note: In parts of Brittany it is the belief that on the Eve of All Souls, the Dead are permitted to return to the world; but that, being shapeless and voiceless, they enter into the bodies of the beggars who are called by the people the '…

ARGUMENT.-I. An appreciation of the full biological import of Winter is not altogether easy for us, here and now. We must think of peoples with less artificial environment, of more wintry regions, and of Glacial Epochs. II. The Sagas of the Biology…

ARGUMENT.- Life is rhythmic and is punctuated by the seasons. Summer is the crest of the annual wave. I. It is the time of intensest life, when both output and income of energy reach their maximum. The activity of unconscious plant-life is crowned in…