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into sin, upon hunting out and collecting, through 

 rock and bog, snow and tempest, every l3ird and egg 

 of the neighbouring forest. I have seen the culti- 

 vated man, craving for travel and for success in life, 

 pent up in the drudgery of London work, and yet 

 keeping his spirit calm, and perhaps his morals all 

 the more righteous, by spending over his microscope 

 evenings which wxuld too probably have gradually 

 been wasted at the theatre. I have seen the young 

 London beauty, amid all the excitement and temp- 

 tation of luxury and flattery, with her heart pure 

 and her mind occupied in a boudoir full of shells 

 and fossils, flowers and sea-weeds ; keeping her- 

 self unspotted from the world, by considering the 

 lilies of the field, how they grow. And therefore 

 it is that I hail with thankfulness every fresh book 

 of Natural History, as a fresh boon to the young, 

 a fresh help to those who have to educate them. 



The greatest difi&culty in the way of beginners is 

 (as in most things) how "to learn the art of learn- 

 ing." They go out, search, find less than they 

 expected, and give the subject up in disappoint- 



