The Sun.
London, England, 1830-07-02 00:00:00

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MAGAZINE DAY.

CHWOOD'S 'MAGAZINE.
ahicle on " Dear-hunting," which Iteads
the: present number, is evidently from the rot
of PrOfessor Wilson; and is worthy of his ver-
satile talents. It is htimoron§-,--descriptite—
ironical—and'replete with an agreeable know.
ledge on all matters relative to Natural History.
We give the Professor's spirited details of the
manners, habits, peculiarities, and so forth, of
the great Mcatulinavian bear :
or `g‘ ispuagnfinaecifoeullsofwv—ortavchientuteT white, black, brown,
salacious, and saga-
cious ;—at thins full of fun and frolic as O'Doberty—next
hour grave as the Archbishop of Canterbury ;--to-day
feeding contentedly, like Sir Richard Phillips, on vege-
tables---in-morrow, like any Alderman, devouring an ox.
Always rough athl featly, his versatility is beyond all admi •
ration. Behold him for months sound asleep, as if in
church—he awake', and sucks his paws with alacrity and
elegance—then away over the snows like a hairy burri-
cane. Ile richly deserves hunting for the highest conide-
ratinns—and for the lowest, only think on—Pomatum.
" The Scandinavian bear—•generally a dark brawn--but
frequvntly black, and then he is laigest—and eumetheee
silver—fur you seldom see two skins altogether
as we have hinted, fond of flesh ; but ants and ,vegetables
compose his principal food. Indeed, that excellent autho-
rity, Mr. Falk, very justly observes, that an animal which
is able to devour a moderate-aired cow in twcuty-foar
hours, would, if flesh farmed the chief part of its sus-
tenancy, destroy all the herds in the country. He thinks
that the destruction which the bets commits upon cattle is
ofttli owing to the latter attacking him in the first instance,
for, when provoked by the bellowing and pursuit of him,
which not unfrequently commence as soon as they get a
view of him, he then displays his superior strength, fag
foul of them, and eats them up berate sunset. Bears, Mr.
Falk says, may reside in the neighbourhood of cattle fur
years without doing them any injury, if they will but keep
quiet ; yet it is equally notorious that they will sometimes
visit herds solely from the desire of prey. Young bears
seldom molest cattle; but okl bears, after having bent in•
suited by them, and eden a few, often become very de-
structive, and passionately fond of beef. Beef every day,
however, ;inns on the palate of a bear, just as tolfjours
perdrix (lid on that of Henry the Fourth of France.—
Accordingly, he varies his diet, judiciously, by an inter-
mixture of roots, the leaves end small branches of the
aspen, mouutain-ash, and other trees, snob succulent plants
as angelica and mountain-thistle, and 'Julies, to which he
is very partial—during the autumn devouring vast quanti-
ties of ripe cranberries, blackberries, raspberries, straw-
berries, cloud-berries, and other berriM common 10 the
Scandinavian forests ; and there can be no doubt that in a
garden he would he an ugly customer among the grouts.
Ripe corn he also eats, and seating himself on his haunches
in a field of it, lie collects, with his outstretched arras,
nearly u sheaf :it a time—what a contrast to Ruth !--end
munches the ears at his leisure. By way of condiment,
lie sucks honey—plundering the peasants of their bee-
hives; and, to subdue the excess of sweetness, he ever and
anon taken a montbfel of ant., of which the taste is known
to all amateurs of acids to he pungent."

A " Tale of Ararat" shows striking powers of
description ; it is written with much force and
even eloquence—though of the ruder and more
homely cast. " The Silent Member" is sarcastic,
reflective, and sagacious as usual ; and " The
Notices to Correspondents" lively and rambling—
perhaps too much so. Altogether the number is a
superior one—in matter not lemthan in manner.