A RARE PICTOGRAPH 



and petroglyphs is easily proved by a com- 

 parison of the early samples of picture writ- 

 ing by the Amerinds and the study in hand. 

 An impartial comparison of the petro- 

 glyph at Millsboro, Pennsylvania (of which 

 an illustration is given), the work of 

 Amerinds of the Pueblo kind, and the picto- 

 graph of our New Hampshire Scolytidae 

 will convince the most skeptical that the 

 honors are all with the lowly artists of the 

 Granite State. 



In the work of the latter, too, there are a 

 subtle elusiveness and suggestiveness that 

 pique the fancy. The more one studies it, 

 the more it yields between its lines. Some 

 of its sections convey a distinctly lyric effect 

 and others are as unmistakably epic in their 

 spirited etching. There are also certain 

 quiet lines indicative of bucolic calm beside 

 still waters. 



To ignore this little classic and make no 

 attempt to discover the message it conveys, 

 simply because its authors were beetles, 

 seemed unworthy of the fair and catholic 

 spirit which should belong to literary criti- 



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