DO YOU STUDY ENTOMOLOGY .' 



Some kind friend suggests we are too sweeping in our 

 denunciation of this idle, frivolous and degenerate age. Too 

 sweeping ? It is impossible. 



We have for some time been occupied in sounding with a 

 plummet the depth of the Entomological minds of the 

 country, and lo, what do we find ! Such an amount of 

 shallowness, laziness and unwillingness to study as is really 

 appalling. Whatever appliances have been brought forth to 

 facilitate the study of Entomology, we continually receive 

 applications, again and again reiterated, to furnish something 

 easier and simpler still. The Entomological digestion can- 

 not dispose of meat ; that we had anticipated, and had ac- 

 cordingly offered it bread and milk, but lo, it clamours for 

 pap ! This is really too bad : we turn a disgusted ear to the 

 whining cry, and take up the pen to rate right soundly this 

 grumbling spirit. 



Study requires attention, diligence and application. 



Attention : to concentrate the attention on the subject before 

 us, to keep our thoughts from wandering, and to take in and 

 understand what we are reading, not skimming over the 

 pages, only half taking in the sense of the writer (as you, 

 gentle reader, have just this moment been doing), is impera- 

 tively required of all who wish to study. 



Diligence: the subject of study must be taken up re- 

 peatedly ; it must not be looked at only once a week, as a sort 

 of penance. " There, now, I have done my lesson, no more 

 till next week," is not the way to profit by our lessons; they 

 must be turned to con amove, and looked on as a " labour of 

 love." 



Application : when you have been studying for some little 

 time, and find the fresh vigour of the mind has worn off, 

 don't put the book away and think you have done enough ; 

 stick to it a little longer, force the rebellious, lazy intellect to 



