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forming a Calendar of Entomological Operations,"* 

 by Eichard Shield, a simple London working-man. 

 I would gladly devote more space than I can here 

 spare to a review of this little book, so perfectly 

 does it corroborate every word which I have said 

 already as to the moral and intellectual value of such 

 studies. Eichard Shield, making himself a first-rate 

 " lepidopterist," while working with his hands for a 

 pound a week, is the antitype of Mr. Peach, the 

 coast-guardsman, among his Cornish tide-rocks. But 

 more than this, there is about Shield's book a tone 

 as of Izaak Walton himself, which is very delight- 

 ful ; tender, poetical, and religious, yet full of quiet 

 quaintness and humour ; showing in every page how 

 the love for Natural History is in him only one ex- 

 pression of a love for all things "ISeautiful, and pure, 

 and right. If any readers of these pages fancy that 

 I over-praise the book, let them buy it, and judge 

 for themselves. They will thus help the good man 

 toward pursuing his studies with larger and better 

 appliances, and will be (as I expect) surprised to find 



* Van Voorst & Co, price 35. 



