During the month of march the thermometer continues generally to range
between forty and fifty degrees; the vegetable world now resumes its
wonted vigour and activity with astonishing rapidity, and the whole face
of nature begins to wear a smiling and cheerful aspect. The warm glowing
sunshine of April completes the lovely picture, the tender plant is no
longer held in bondage by the opposing elements, a thousand pretty
odoriferous harbingers on every side remind us that the season of
universal florescence is at hand, regenerated, benificent nature,
rejoices beneath a serene and cloudless sky, and whilst a magical
brilliancy illumines the new born verdure, the embryo bud, the expanded
blossom, and the vigorous plant of spring, silently but eloquently give
joyful promise of the abundant fruits of Autumn.

This is a pleasing but not overwrought picture of the forwardness and
redundant beauty of the springs of central France:--

Where the resplendant orb of day
Imparts the magic of his ray
Een'through the wintry blast!
And dormant nature forthwith springs,
Mounting to life with vig'rous wings
Triumphant oer the past.
For now the rural gods do reign,
Oer vine-clad hill and verdant plain,
To grace the teemful earth;
The clear, _elastic_ air is fill'd,
With sweets the flowerets have distill'd,
To consecrate their birth.
Redolent zephyrs play around,
And _health_ inspiring hills abound,
Beneath these bright blue skies;
New energy, new life to man they give,
Bidding his drooping spirit live,
And taste the _new-born-joys_.

DIRECTIONS FOR INVALID TRAVELLERS.

It being a matter of the first importance to the valetudinarian to adopt
every precaution against the atmospheric effects to which he is
necessarily exposed in his transit from place to place, and also of
great consequence to be provided with such comforts and necessaries as
are probably not to be obtained in his route through the country; a few
observations on this point may here with propriety be introduced, and
which we think cannot be more judiciously stated than in the words, of a
popular writer, who has spent many years in travelling on the continent.
"It will add materially to the comforts and advantage of invalids who
travel _en poste_, to have a courier who rides before, to avoid the
delays at the post-stations, at frontiers, etc., and to have apartments
at the hotels ready pre