THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, 
No. 07.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1*858. [Price 1 d. 
PROCRASTINATION. 
An Irish sailor was hauling in a rope; 
he thought he was long in coming to 
the end of it, and on being addressed, 
“ What ! Pat, have n’t you got in the 
end of that rope yet?” “Faith, no, 
yer honour,” he replied ; then sud- 
denly exclaimed, as though a bright 
idea had struck him, “ may be some 
one has cut it off.” 
Now we have been very industriously 
hauling away for some time at a long 
rope, at the end of which is attached 
Guenee’s volume on Geomelrce, but pull 
as we will we bring in nothing but 
rope, rope, rope, without ever coming 
to the end of it; first, it was to have 
been out in September; then, after 
repeated correspondence on our part, 
M. Guenee, who really appears to have 
exerted himself immensely to accom- 
modate us, wrote that the volume 
would be published before the end of 
November; now, as the publication has 
not yet taken place, are we to con- 
clude that November lasts longer in 
Paris than in London ? Perhaps not 
there being attended with an equal 
amount of fogs and feats of gastronomy, 
that month (inevitably connected, in 
the ideas of all Englishmen, with Guy 
Fawkes and Lord Mayors) is not cur- 
tailed to its moderate allowance here 
of thirty days, and perhaps were we 
now to visit Paris we might find them 
still basking in the last days of a 
November sun ; but yet we hardly 
think this can be so, and we are more 
disposed to fancy that the end of 
November is come and gone in Paris 
as in London, and nay, more, that 
December is also gone, and did we 
not receive a positive assurance that 
the volume would be published on the 
20th of December? aud did not “ our 
own correspondent,” calling there on 
that day, learn to his regret “ that 
M. Guenee’s volume would appear in the 
course of January” — information which 
is enough to exasperate an English- 
man, aud which no doubt will make 
many of our readers wish we had 
adopted any arrangement of the Geo- 
metridce rather than indulge in the 
wild-goose speculation of waiting for the 
appearance of an unpublished foreign 
work. 
Since the above was in type, we 
are happy to announce that we have 
received the first volume of M. Guenee’s 
Geometrce , but whether we have yet 
a 
