First Snow

Mr. Robert Lynd once remarked of Jane Austen's characters:"They are people in whose lives a slight fall of snow is an event."Even at the risk of appearing to this witty and genial critic as another Mr. Woodhouse, I must insist that last night's fall of snow here was an event. I was nearly as excited about it this morning as the children, whom I found all peering through the nursery window at the magic outside and chattering as excitedly as if Christmas had suddenly come round again. The fa…