All-Souls' Day, a festival held by Roman Catholics on the 2d of November, for special prayer in behalf of all the faithful dead. It was first introduced in 998, by Odilon, Abbot of Clugni, who enjoined it on his own order. It was soon after adopted by neighboring churches. It is the day on which, in the Romish church, extraordinary masses are repeated for the relief of souls said to be in purgatory. Formerly on this day persons dressed in black perambulated the towns and cities, each provided with a bell of dismal tone, which was rung in public places by way of exhortation to the people to remember the souls in purgatory. In some parts of the west of England it is still the custom for the village children to go around to all their neighbors souling, as they call it, collecting small contributions, and singing the following verses, taken down from two of the children themselves: Soul! Soul! for a soul-cake, Pray good mistress, for a soul-cake, One for Peter, two for Paul, Three for Him that made us all. Soul! soul! for an apple or two; If you've got no apples, pears will do, Up with your kettle, and down with your pan, Give me a good big one and I'll be gone. The soul cake referred to in the verses is a sort of bun which the people used to make, and to give to one another on the 2d of November. In the following tables there is presented at one view the day of the month on which the principal feasts and fasts fall in the ecclesiastical year 1817-18 and 1885-86. In the former Easter happens at its earliest possible date, in the latter at its latest date in this century: