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steel, and four steel plates of moths, caterpillars, beetles and their larve, 
with forty-six cuts in the text, we first open upon a memoir of Dr. Har- 
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ris, by Col. W. Higginson. Then follows Harris’ Correspondence 
with Hentz, Melsheimer, Doubleday, ojus Leconte, Miss Morris, and 
shorter communications from Say, Zim n,and others. An Appendix 
contains numerous descriptions of có Sepe papers; his contri- 
butions to entomology in the **New England Farmer," extracts from 
agricultural papers, etc., etc. The work is beautifully priuted, edited 
eatest care and fidelity to the memory and fame of Dr. Harris, 
and is a work that every one who wishes to be an entomologist should 
read ad dp that he may imbibe the spirit of conscientious research 
and unwearying devotion to truth that were among the prime charac- 
teristics of Dr. Harris’ nature 
PICTURES AND STORIES OF ANIMALS.*— These works will unquestion- 
ably prove of bee to young. They are not so praiseworthy in 
peint of çomposit io n the amount of information which they con- 
ke enun are most of them characteristic, while others 
have that stiff, woodeny appearance but too E found in works upo 
Natural History. The Tenney series, unlike all other juvenile works of 
its class, treats pense of American an ub and for that reason, if for 
no other, we heartily recommend it to those who would instruct their 
children or younger pupils in the rudiments of Natural History. 
SHING IN AMERICAN WaTERS.]— That Genial is the nature if not m 
exact name of the author of this most useful and entertaining volum 
must be apparent to every reader. and fishing, tackle and tate 
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manner throughout the entire work. The author is evidently a Walto- 
nian angler, -" - gS man who fears God, loves his neighbor, an 
goes a fishing. 
A fly-fisher, and, as is well known a master of that gentle art, he 
cui as has been lately the fashion, ** wash his hands of gai od fus 
bs flies, and affect to despise those wh e them as 
Goths and Vandals, but hoicpity acknowledges that skill ed be be displayed 
even in bait-fishing, and gives the results of his experience in that line 
for the benefit of those benighted heathens, who, as yet, m S be totally 
innocent of any knowledge of the hackle, gei or coachm 
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oe ards with jealous care.” (p. 25.) 
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Pictur of Animals for the Little Ones at Home, By Mrs. Sanborn Tenney. 
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