THE GUIDE TO NATURE.— ADVERTISEMENTS. 



XIX 



Interest in Microscopy. 

 I sympathize most heartily with you 

 in wishing to cultivate the old spirit of 

 amateur microscopy. If the young- 

 sters get interested in the microscope 

 and the microscopic world they will 

 never get away from it, and they will 

 appreciate and encourage nature study 

 in all its forms even if they themselves 

 never go very far with it. — Professor 

 Simon Henry Gage, Cornell Univer- 

 sity, Ithaca, New York. 



The Spirit of the Whole. 



Professor Wiseman, get you out of 

 doors. Let be your books and lock the 

 laboratory behind you for a little 

 while. Empty your brain of facts so 

 that there may be room for a few new 

 ones. Forget for an hour even the best 

 and most firmly established of your 

 theories so that you may not be 

 tempted to interpret falsely what you 

 see. Listen to the flicker laughing 

 heartily in the distance. Watch the 

 slim gray mockingbirds as they play 

 hide-and-seek about the grove. Keep 

 an eye on the amber-colored butter- 

 flies flitting carelessly from flower to 

 flower. Ah, but there comes a king- 

 bird and he crushes one of the butter- 

 flies in his bill. And you, Professor 

 Wiseman, will now nod your head 

 sagely and recognize an illustration of 

 the deadly struggle for life. You will 

 use the incident next day in your class 

 as a practical demonstration of the 

 bloody war of nature. See to it, then, 

 that you do not lead those young men 

 astray. Be careful that you do not 

 give them a false idea of what you saw 

 when you left your books and your 

 dissecting table for an hour and, con- 

 trary to your custom, went out into the 

 living world. When you tell them 

 about the butterfly that met death, see 

 to it that you tell them also about the 

 hundred others that went on sipping 

 honey in all delight of life, and about 

 the flicker laughing in the distance and 

 the happy mockingbirds flitting about 

 the grove. — Herbert R. Sass, in the 

 Atlantic. 



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