A RARE PICTOGRAPH 



given will convince the reader that this is 

 the work of no Peter Bellish beetle, oblivious 

 of the beauty of its surroundings, but an 

 observing insect, keenly alive to every beau- 

 tiful form within its range of vision. If the 

 reader will carefully study these photo- 

 graphs, he will find vivid impressionistic 

 sketches of leaves, ferns, flowers, roots, twigs 

 (pine twigs, especially), bugs, beetles, un- 

 dulating worms, lizards, dragon-flies, moths, 

 butterflies, cones, mosses, and mushrooms, 

 each reproduced with much accuracy of 

 effect, and at the same time so skillfully uni- 

 fied into one impressive whole that they sug- 

 gest a Balzacian Comedie Entomologique. 

 Much more, one suspects, is shown on this 

 strange pictograph than the dull human eye 

 may verify from its own crude and limited 

 perception. 



Here and there, margined by leaves and 

 ferns, one finds quaint little groups of tiny 

 figures that might be earth gnomes or pixies, 

 invisible in real life to the human eye. Some 

 of these groups, with their sylvan entourage, 

 recall the work of Corot in the same field, 



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