NOTICES OF EPISODES OF INSECT LIFE. 3 



" We conceive that there is a peculiar appropriateness in thus ornamenting 

 the science of Entomology. The rich fancy of the author of this beautiful 

 book may be fitly likened to the luxuriant verdure of leaves and flowers, 

 among which live and sport so many of the tribes described. These inhabit- 

 ants of the world of verdure and of the by-places and crannies of creation, 

 with their tiny toils and pleasures could they have a more appropriate his- 

 torian ? 



" The getting up of the book is a really splendid specimen of taste. Mr. 



Redfield should be exempted from the bite of a bug, or the sting of a 



mosquito, for the term of his natural life." Whiff Review. 



" Episodes of Insect Life]" 1 just published by Kedfield, is the prettiest book 

 we remember to have seen since our advent among books : butterflies, lady- 

 birds, gnats, moths, and beetles, are most exquisitely pictured, with all sorts 

 of quaint vignettes. The descriptions are charming ' Episodes,' and the paper, 

 printing, and binding, have never been excelled in this country. If you have 

 ever chased a butterfly, reader, go and buy this book." Knickerbocker. 



" A pleasing novelty is this volume, both in its conception and in its execu- 

 tion. The author personates the House Cricket, (Acheta Domestica,) and chirps 

 as musically and domestically as does 'the Cricket on the Hearth' in the 

 melodious 'Christmas Chimes.' A more tasteful and attractive book has 

 never been issued from the American press. Its exquisite wood-cuts, repre- 

 senting by most ingenious devices the developments and peculiarities of 

 various insect tribes, its fine-textured lily leaves, its clear, bold letter-press, 

 the charming vivacity of its style, its scientific information conveyed under 

 the type of anecdote and illustration, its allegorical decorations, its keen satire 

 and droll Esop-like moralizing these all chain the eye to the volume, and 

 make one quite enamored, not of the cricket only, but of his numerous com- 

 peers of the insect world. Indeed we are almost disposed to regard our friend 

 Lyon, with his magnetic powder, as a sort of wholesale murderer of innocence 

 and beauty, and to upbraid ourselves for having, by recommendation, become 

 auxiliary to the extermination of any species of ' varmint.' Hereafter the lady- 

 reader of this volume when in her garden walks she shall encounter the spider 

 spinning himself down upon her hood or cape, instead of screaming ' Ugh ! 

 John, William, come kill this ugly creature !' will fondly say, ' Come hither, 

 my Epeira diadema, spin for me thy pretty gossamer.' The stroller in the 

 summer fields, instead of flying before the wasp, will pause to admire the 

 graceful evolutions of the golden-winged but short-lived Vespa the builder of 

 palace-tombs. And through the livelong summer night how shall we welcome 

 the sharp violin-twang of the mosquito, and yield our veins to this phlebot- 

 omizing practitioner of the old school. 



" What a world of wonders is thrown open to us in these mere episodes of 

 insect life. Welcome, cricket, to our home 1 In nummer we will give thee 

 whatever of garden space the sepulchred enclosure of city walls allows, and in 

 winter a deserted oven or whatever kitchen-range or cellar-furnace have left 

 of that ancient realm of domestic joy, the hearth-stone and the chimney- 



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" This volume, following the order of the months, closes with April. \\ e 

 hope therefore that there are others in store. The subject presents a delight- 

 ful field of contemplation to the devout and inquiring mind." -N. Y. Ind. 



