NEW WORKS ON ENTOMOLOGY. 169 



"We well remember how we gloated over the pages of the Calendar 

 ofSamouelle's Entomologist's Compendium. 



In the chapter for January, we have information as to the ap- 

 paratus required for breeding insects, and an excursion to Wick- 

 ham. 



In the chapter for February we have a caution against believing 

 every thing we read in books (and never was caution more needed, 

 the young especially are so apt blindly to swallow whatever they 

 see in print), and an excursion to Plumstead. 



In the chapter for March we have a discourse about sugaring, 

 and an excursion to Sanderstead. 



The opening portion of the chapter for April incites the collector 

 to humility and industry, and then follows an excursion to Dart- 

 ford Heath. 



As a specimen of the book, we quote the following from the 

 chapter for August. 



" It was remarked by the celebrated Dr. Johnson, on being told 

 that a person whom he knew had destroyed himself, ' that he never 

 would have done so had he learnt how to hem a pocket handker- 

 chief.' Now, to how many of the working men of this country, 

 who now find the little time which they can call their own, after 

 the labours of the day are over, hang heavily on their hands, may 

 this remark apply ; many of them listlessly sitting in the chimney 

 corner with a pipe in their mouths, their thoughts of as little prac- 

 tical worth as the smoke that wreaths round their heads ; some 

 victims to ennui, not knowing how to spend their time or what to 

 do, and many, I grieve to say, spending their time in a more than 

 questionable manner to the profit of the publican and the degra- 

 dation of themselves— to how many of this class would the study 

 and contemplation of the works of nature bring happiness and con- 

 tentment, raising them from the grovelling and debasing ten- 

 dencies that kind of society into which a working man is 

 usually thrown produces, expanding his intellect, giving him larger 

 and more comprehensive views of the great plan of creation, and 

 the relations we bear to each other and the world at large ; and 

 fostering in him habits of observation and reflection eminently cal- 

 culated to make him a better citizen and a better man. The habits 

 of order, reflection and energetic industry he will have acquired in 

 the pursuit of Entomology (and indeed by all branches of Natural 

 History the same effect will be produced upon the earnest student), 

 will tincture all his actions, and thus he will not only become 

 more happy as a man, but more valuable as a servant." 



It may surprise some of our readers to hear that the writer of 

 the work before us is himself " a working man." The Author of 

 "Alton Locke" observes in the :Jrd Edition of "Glaucus," "I would 



