4 NOTICES OF EPISODES OF INSECT LIFE. 



"In scope, style, and execution, this is a most tastefully elegant, and usefully 

 entertaining book. It is a graphic, sprightly portraiture of the natural history 

 of insects, written for popular reading, free from scientific terms, and abound- 

 ing with curious facts, elegant descriptions, humorous anecdotes, and enthu- 

 siastic interest, relative to the habits, appearance, uses, troubles, &c., of all 

 the multitude of ephemera. The work is comprised in three volumes, one 

 relating to the Insects of Spring, another to those of Summer, and the third 

 to those of Autumn. Mr. Eedfield has issued the first ; and in a style of typo- 

 graphy and illustration of remarkable taste and beauty. The engravings are 

 exquisitely fine, printed hi letter-press, yet with an elegance and finish which 

 was never attained on wood. Some new art has been applied here, evidently, 

 producing extraordinary effects. These plates are numerous, ingenious, and 

 tastefully disposed. It is a work which will give delight to all classes of 

 readers, mingling science and romance, anecdote, and fact, taste and knowl- 

 edge, with such skill and sprightliness, that, whether taken up as a book of 

 learning or a book of leisure, it will be equally sure to please. The English 

 journals and reviews have been for some time praising it, and we are very 

 glad to see it in this elegant form, so well adapted to win its way where the 

 same useful knowledge, in a more homely garb, would find but little wel- 

 come."^ r. 



" A volume of essays, sketches, and stories illustrative of the habits of Insect 

 Life. Its poetic and imaginative style w r ill attract all who can appreciate wit 

 and humor, made subsidiary to the diffusion of interesting and valuable in- 

 formation. The general appearance of the book is quite in harmony with its 

 literary excellence, presenting a model of typography, &c." Journal of Com. 



" Episodes of Insect Life, by Acheta Domestica, M. E. S. : Is the title of a 

 beautiful volume, illustrated in the most admirable and artistic style. This 

 work is a specimen of typographical neatness, and its contents unfold the won- 

 ders of the insect world in the most pleasing and fanciful manner. It is the 

 volume of all others, which our readers will take with them during the sum- 

 mer months to the sea shore or the bush. The author, in a single line, pro- 

 vokes one to laughter and thought, and concludes every sentence by imparting 

 some useful little bit of information." Boston Evening Gazette. 



" This splendid volume is a reprint of an English work which has attained 

 a well deserved celebrity abroad, and is now introduced in a beautiful form to 

 American readers. Its author is an enthusiastic entomologist, and gives every 

 desirable evidence of belonging to that very small class, the true lovers of 

 nature. Of pretenders to the simple taste which is exhibited in these pages, 

 multitudes may be found, any where, but Walton, and White, and Davy, are 

 as far removed from such sentimentalists, as angels are above men. This book 

 has points of affinity with the complete Angler, the Natural History of Shel- 

 borne and Salmonia. There is much poetry in it not a little of rare and 

 curious matter, and a great deal of scientific knowledge. It is written in an 

 easy and elegant style, and is destined to live. 



" The style in which this volume is issued, is an honor to the American press. 

 The head and tail pieces to the chapters, are in a high style of art ; and are 

 favorable specimens of the perfection to which wood-engraving has attained 

 among us. There are few American works which will compare with it in ap- 

 pearance. Nobody will repent buying it/' Old Colony Memorial. 



