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REVIEWS. 
naturalist, and expressed our satisfaction at the promise of the work the 
first volume of which now lies before us. Our attention having been so re¬ 
cently called to the subject, coupled with the fact that we shall have abun¬ 
dant opportunities of returning to it from time to time, as fresh volumes 
make their appearance, it will be less necessary to be lengthy in our re¬ 
marks now. In fact, this is the first instalment of a work the completion of 
which belongs to a period of perhaps almost fabulous futurity. “ This is 
the first of a long series of volumes,” says Mr. Stainton in his preface ; and, 
as a significant comment on the announcement, we are told “ the subscrip¬ 
tion list to the first ten volumes is now closed. Due notice will be given 
of the opening of the subscription list for the second series of ten volumes.” 
* 1 It is hoped that the progress of our discoveries will enable us annually to 
produce a volume,” although it may be more than a year before volume 2 
is ready, owing to the premature death of the very accomplished artist, Mr. 
Wing, and the consequent necessity for training another to the required 
pitch of entomological excellence. Onwards, then, for nineteen years at 
least, we may look as composedly as we can, and when the young naturalists 
among us shall be turning gray, and the veterans live only in memory, 
the subscription list for a third series of ten volumes may be just closing. 
It is a long work, truly ; blessed are they who have much patience. Yet 
we have no right to complain. Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth 
doing well, and if twenty, thirty, or even forty years be needful to do this 
work, we would not wish to curtail the time by a single year. These little 
creatures are the work of Infinite Wisdom, and deserve in themselves more 
than superficial notice ; for “ the works of the Lord are great, sought out 
of all them that have pleasure therein.” He “ hath so done His marvellous 
works that they ought to be had in remembrance.” And if Messrs. Stainton 
and Douglas, and Professor Zeller, are not spared to complete the work in 
their own persons, we cannot doubt that they who rise up after them, 
though to-day, perhaps, in the nursery, will be both able and anxious to 
continue a work so auspiciously and trustfully begun. 
In one respect there is a material difference between this work and the 
one formerly reviewed by us. That was confined to the British Tineina; 
this includes all European species, and is apparently intended not more for 
the British entomologist than for the German, French, Swedish, and Italian, 
the co-operation of all of whom is solicited, in order to make the work more 
complete, and to provide for the continuous appearance of the volumes, 
while, to render it an European work in its fullest sense, the letterpress is 
given in four languages, English, French, German, and Latin, so that it 
would be difficult to find a civilised and educated European to whom this 
