NEW AND CHARMING WORK, 



NOW PUBLISHING BY 



J. S. REDFIELD, CLINTON HALL, NEW-YORK, 



ENTITLED 



BY 



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ACHETA DOMESTICA, M. E. S. 



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First Series INSECTS OF SPRING Now ready. 



Second Series INSECTS OF SUMMER Now ready. 



Third Series INSECTS OF ATJTTJMM. -Will be published in Aug. 



EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL NOTICES. 



The First Part of "Episodes of Insect Life," from the press of J. S. Redfield, 

 is now ready amply illustrated, a fac-simile of the English edition : a more 

 charming book, fresh with the fragrance of the country air, and musical with 

 the rustle of insect wings, is not likely to be seen often. In the clearness of 

 its type, the beauty of the illustrations, and the whole manner of its present- 

 ment, the "Episodes" fairly gives the laurel to its tasteful and enterprising 

 publisher. Literary World. 



n * * * * * Now that we have introduced you, good reader, be plain with 

 us, on your soul, if you know a circle of friends with whom you would rather 

 spend a day than with these notable, gifted, companionable, and most charm- 

 ing insect-folks ! You see there is no lack of variety : there are grandfathers 

 and grandmothers, brothers and sisters, grave judges and fops though of 

 better sort, and dressed in far purer taste than our humans patricians and 

 plebeians, subterranean and parlor aristocracy in the tree tops. 



" For a pure summer's day, when old Sol hath warmed his next friend, the 

 Earth, to the heart's cere, grant, oh ! Beneficence of all things ! that we may 

 lie in some gentle locust shadow, hard by a fragrant bower, with a smooth- 

 flowing stream, our only human companion this Kedfield with his Episodes ; 

 and shall we not be happier than the scourer of Waterloo, sailer on the Ehine, 

 climber of the Alps, with his Eustace or Murray ? Believe us, a bee's wing is 

 a mightier wonder than St. Peter's, and the wild fowl standing on one leg by 

 a water-pool, more contemplative than the pyramids of the desert !" Do. 



