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illusions of youth and happiness, being actually ‘‘ rocked to 
sleep in a cradle of flowers.”’ 
For these reasons the butterflies have always been ad- 
mired more than any other insect, and have attracted uni- 
versal attention from every people, and in every clime where 
they have been found. Especially are they the favorites 
of the youth; so much so, that in some countries—as, for 
instance, Germany and France—almost every town has its 
youthful amateurs who collect and exhibit them in glass 
eases. In China and the Indies these collections form a 
part of their exports, which generally meet with a ready sale. 
The pencil and the brush of many a distinguished artist has 
been occupied with them; and there are now in existence 
a greater number of splendid works, descriptive and illus- 
trative of them, than any other class of animals can boast. 
For the sake of our readers who desire to investigate 
these works, we refer to a few of the best, which are beau- 
tifully illustrated with well-colored and generally accurate 
engravings. 
RoxsEv’s Insecten Belustigung (Amusements with the Insects). 
Mertan, Insecta Surinamensia. 
Drury’s Exotic Insects. 
Esrer’s Luropdische Schmetterlinge (European Butterflies). 
Esrer’s Auslindische Schmetterlinge (Exotic Butterflies). 
Ernst et ENGRAMELLE, Papillions d’ Europe. 
Hersst’s Schmetterlinge (Butterflies). 
Husner’s Schmetterlinge (Butterflies). 
Donnovan’s Insects of China, India, and New Holland. 
Axspor’s Natural History of the Insects of Georgia. 
Boispuvau et Leconte, Lepidoptéres de [ Amerique Septentrionale. 
Tuomas Say’s American Entomology. 
Notwithstanding the beauty of the butterflies, and their 
apparently happy life, they are extremely selfish in their 
habits, and on this account their faculties seem very limit- 
ed in comparison with other insects. We never find them 
united in democratic republics, like the ants; or in a consti- 
