The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-12-19
NO. BIG.
AUDUBON'S oRNITHoJoey

woods Magazine =
Soon after Audubons arrival in Edip-
burgh, where he soon found many friends.
he opened his exhibition -Four hundred
drawngs-palntIngs IN water colors-of
about Two thousand birds, covered the walls
o! tile Institution Hall, IN The Royal Society
buildings, and the effect was like magic.
Inc spectator imagined himself In forest
All were OF the size OF life. from the wren
ara hnmmlng-blrd, TO the wild turkey, and
the bird oil Washington. But what signif-
Ell the mere size! The coiors were all of
lie teo-hright as when borne IN beaming
beauty through The woods. There, too,
were their attitudes and pastures, infinite
as they are assumed by the restless crea-
lures, in motion or rest, in their glee and
thei. gambols, their loves and THAR wars,
singing, or caresslng, or brooding, or prey
ing, or tearing one another into pieces.
The trees, too, on which they sat or sport
ed, all true to nature, in bole, branch, spray,
and leaf; the Towering shrubs and the
ground mowers, the weeds, and the very
grass, an American-so, too, the atmos-
pnere ana the skles-all trans Atlantic
lwos a WIG ana poetical vision OF the
heart OF Inc New w orld, inhabited, as yet,
almost wholly by the lovely or noble rrea-
lures mat own not mans dominion There
we Deheld them all there was picture of
their various lie. There many fantastic
lumber played MS strange vagaries in the
aIr-there many cloud-cleaver swept the
skIes-their living CLEANS glanced through
the forest glades-their meteor-like plum
age shown in the woodland gloom-their
strange shapes stalked stately along the
shell-brlght shoFes-and there, halcyons all,
tar foaters hung in the sunshine on wave
less seas. That all this wonderful creation.
should have been the unassisted work of
one man-In his own country almost I'M
known and by his own country wholly un-
befrlented, was thought that awoke to-
wards the American woodsman feelings Of
more than admiration, of the deepest per-
sonal interest !; and the hearts of all warm
ed towards Audubon, who were capable of
conceiving the difficulties, and dangers. and
sacrifices, that must have been encounter
ed, endured, and overcome, before genius
had thus embodied these, the glory of its
innumerable triumphs.
THE impression produced on all minds.
was such as 20 ENCOURAGE Audnbon n ven'
tuye on the dangerous des;on of bn,;u,L
whole engraved Danrorons :, r.;.L.sn1i
ha colIoJ saairr ,h"s ~ ~ snt "ef
o1ens 1idt .he "orh was TO
sanu ngures' WORK, says Cuvler, con-
ceiVed and executed on SO vast plan, has
nut one fault, that its expense must render
1t mace essible to the greatest number of
those to whom it will be the most necessa-
ry' 1T will be a LASTING monuuent cove
Swanson. in the same shirt NOT oni,, -
tho memory of it, ,,,hor h., ~ oay ~
emnloy thai ,raaI,h ~ nn, nua " .noSe VINO
I'D ~ ,,u-';o IA Pa.! oniIius genius,
" 'no Ha'ionai circuit. Ii
any P'"iiSatioh observes sucn distinction,
II Is surely this; lnasmuch as 1t exhibits q
perfection IN the higher attributes of zoolog-
zeal paintings, never before attempted. To
represent the passions and feelings of birds
might, until now, have been well deemed
chimerical. Rarely. indeed. do we SEQ
their outward forms reDresented with anv
th;no like nature In NV oe,;,o,;on y,
marc Tina, n roo ,,o;n,er, e,,e,. En.J 49, 80
-. - * 80 - t , ~"o e0tt'"
- "Ise' .no iaiiien'eu DAT
.aoa1, VI "notn may pe justly
PIouu' was tne chiei: ne had long passed
away Out MS mantle mas, at length, been
recovered IN the forests OF America
MULTIPLICATION AND PUMPKIN Pies. Under
this caption in the Philadelphia United States
Gazette, we find the annexed recipe, from one,
who, having travelled through New England,
where he was sureited with pumpkin pies,
tn''i oons;l uc'ioh axe, says ne, any CIV
{" puuipn.' anu ai'e' u'VIu,g IL horizontally
anu ~, ~ " i.s eeeus anu sufPeihuous con-
ee".s, Piaoo .'o smo pa''s toseller upon oish
vi, P ,h a" " s.oEe WIN SLOW nre'
,han; .r1 ~, a'b b". y. water 1se remain
I ~, iMJ VI antl suihclen.y pak'
H. WIZ ~ anu tie sDcJeet mat,
CO. u .n0 pu"ipnin may oe leady separated
l'o'n 'ao nSi' uG WI, oe ioGnd 70 De IN the
pe',ae ooHu ana lGa P'es, heedng only me su'
%, anu sPoes, VIZ" i Gu DC auGeo according
III .no ';m Vi 'as'e. ms, Tor SIM
pid NV n,; H.. .od safe nnuTn laooi, put ex
better without them bnt NAV he n,ada Iii -
" one fourth orthe trouble attendant IN The ~.
dinary mode Upon this the ever.readv Ed.
tor Of the Gazette-vho knows ali abon;, Nem
ENGLAND customs-thus comments uannn
DAYS, when science descends from Tho ,,barap
~ TO the bake-pan. and ministers IA econom,
by dispensing with milk and eros The nics
made as cur correspondent directs are csr,p;n'
" good but there are those who will mon,n
for the reform in the connection, namely tsosa
Younger members oftbe family comn,ct whoss
reward for good behavior and stirring the Stew.
ing pumpkin, was to lick the pudding stick with
from the dish the ingredients left when the
! pies were all made Their occupations gone"