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NEW WORKS ON ENTOMOLOGY. 



(By the Editor.) 



The present year has produced in England several Ento- 

 mological works of unusual importance. 



We proceed to enumerate eight, of which the two last are 

 still in progress of publication. 



THE WORLD OF INSECTS; A Guide to its 

 Wonders. By J. W. Douglas, Secretary to the 

 Entomological Society of London. 12mo. pp. 244. 

 Price 3s. 6d. London : John Van Voorst. 



This little work treats in an easy and pleasant style of the varied 

 haunts which insects frequent, and commencing truly with the 

 beginning, the first chapter treats of " the house." One is 

 really surprised, how much there is to be noticed in the habits and 

 ways of the insects occurring actually in our habitations. The 

 successive chapters are headed : The garden — The orchard and 

 fruit garden— The fields — The hedges and lanes — The fences — 

 The heaths and commons — The downs — The woods — The waters — 

 The sea shore and the mountains. 



As a specimen of the aim and intent of the writer, we quote the 

 preface entire. 



" ' Business must be attended to.' Undoubtedly. There is no 

 need to insist upon the maxim, for it is observed as religiously as if 

 it comprised the whole duty of man. Rather should it be, ' the 

 intervals of business must be attended to.' Business is a compul- 

 sory affair, a man's leisure is his own ; and for his own sake, as well 

 as that of the community, it should be leisure of occupation. And, 

 as mere mercantile business has a tendency to contract the range of 

 thought, and to give a money value to all matters, a man's 



