BY A RURAL RECTOR. Norwich : AGAS H. GOOSE, RAMPANT HORSE STREET. 1889....

“You should have gone to Cromer, my dear, if you went anywhere.  Dr. Perry was a week at Cromer once, and he holds it to be the best of all sea-bathing places.  A fine open sea, he says, and very pure air.”— Emma , by Jane Austen, page 72. When do the dog-days begin?  “Francis Moore, Physician,” and other authorities, ancient and modern, tell us on the 3rd of July.  But the puzzling star, Sirius, in its gradual recession from our world, has not only changed its complexion from the ruddy hue of y