NOTICES OF EPISODES OF INSECT LIFE. 5 



" We Lave read tLis work and felt our interest and admiration rising, and 

 strengthening, with every page. The authoress, for we are told, ' Acheta' is a 

 lady, deserves all praise for her work, and may well he proud of what she has 

 accomplished. In the words of one whose opinion is worth having, on account 

 of his natural and cultivated capacity of discernment of things essentially me- 

 ritorious, and beautiful, we can say, that if the publications of the last twenty 

 years were gathered together, we doubt if a work more charming and delight- 

 ful could be found, than this. We are lured into pleasant knowledge out of 

 ' blissful ignorance,' by the tempting fictions, and ' thin veils ' of fancy, Acheta 

 presents her style too is the most agreeable, sprightly, and spicy imagin- 

 able. She is a chatty, charming author, ' and no mistake.' 



" This volume, (we have seen and read) is the first of the three which form 

 the complete series. All sorts of insects, their appearance, personal, and 

 habits individual, are well discussed, and the illustrations given, are perfect 

 gems. Eyes that love to feast on things fanciful, and most beautiful, and 

 thoughts willing to be beguiled into useful and intellectual amusements, will be 

 attracted and enchained by the work, without a doubt. 



MR. KEDFIELD deserves all praise too, for re-publishing this graceful book in 

 a style so worthy of its prototype, and we are confident that the appreciative 

 will not rest satisfied with paying him merely in thanks." Rochester Democrat. 



" This book, which Mr. Redfield has done himself great honor in publish- 

 ing in such exquisite style, is a fit annual for the summer holidays. We have 

 no where, in late time, met a work so every way charming the binding is 

 beautiful the paper and type perfect, and the illustrations admirably executed 

 after the most original of all original designs. But this dress would be an ag- 

 gravation after all, and a despicable one too, if the reader of this first volume 

 of three, which are given to the nature, habits, and ' outward manifestation' 

 of the Insects of Spring, Summer and Autumn, did not feel charmed, inter- 

 ested and much instructed, by the perusal. The style is graceful, full of 

 humor, and faultlessly beautiful ; and of all books, in which lovers of fiction are 

 charmed into the bondage and study of facts, of all at least which we have met, 

 we pronounce this the very best. The authoress, ' Acheta' is a woman, o the 

 Reviews tell us says that "the following essays have been written, not with a 

 view of teaching Entomology as a science, but of affording such a measure of 

 acquaintance with the habits of the Insect world, as may serve to promote the 

 ulterior and more useful design of cultivating the rudimental seeds of system- 

 atic investigation." We do not quote this opening sentence of the preface as a 

 specimen of the style of the writer ; the reader who would not read the pre- 

 face through, perhaps, could not, we venture to say, lay the work aside with- 

 out expressing, as we do, our hearty admiration ; nor without the hope that 

 our people may prove in the judgment they pass upon it, a love for a range of 

 light and useful literature, a little exalted above the ' Milliner line.' "Ontario 

 Depository. 



" This is a book for drawing-rooms and watering-places, and certainly high- 

 ly novel and entertaining. While mingling the pleasant with the useful, it 

 presents many facts which, however well known to naturalists, will leave some- 

 thing worthy of remembrance in the minds of the class for which it is evi- 

 dently designed the votaries of fashion and people of leisure, who rarely 

 trouble the sciences, and when they do so, limit themselves to the regular ten 

 minutes of a morning call." Sartairi's Magazine. 



