2 KIRBY AND SPENCE’S ENTOMOLOGY, price 5s. 
opinions of the press— continued . 
of the Annulata, and thence indirectly to all the lower forms of animal life. 
Nor has its popularity been limited to one tongue or country; but either 
through the medium of translations, or by the obvious influence which it 
has exercised, ever since, over the most esteemed elementary books in other 
European languages, the influence given has been propagated externally 
in a widening circle. In noticing this new edition, however, it is with 
home readers we have to do, and especially with the young, who enjoy a 
privilege that w r e of a former generation were debarred from, in being 
early admitted to fields of instruction and delight, which some time were 
strictly fenced off from the narrow pen-fold of ‘ general education. 5 ...... 
The book is, indeed, a marvel of cheapness, considerably more than 600 
closely-printed octavo pages for five shillings.To our readers, old 
and young,—parents, children, teachers, respectively,—we say, ‘ buy and 
read ; 5 enjoy, verify, and enlarge, by the use of your own eyes and faculties, 
the curious details in rural economy, animal biography, and mental 
philosophy, amassed with so much study and personal observation, and 
digested with equal taste and judgment by the learned authors, indissolubly 
associated in fame and remembrance, as they were in life-long frendship, 
though now for a little while separated by a temporal change. To the 
survivor of the two we owe a very charming addition to the volume, in the 
shape of letters and recollections connected with the first conception and 
progress of the work, and the cordial friendship which, having originated 
and matured the undertaking, so long survived its completion and partici¬ 
pated its success/ 5 Natural History Review. 
“ It is almost impossible to read this engaging volume without becoming 
enamoured of the study of the little creatures whose habits and instincts 
it describes; and the rapidity with which the new edition is now being 
sown broadcast over the land, may reasonably be expected to produce 
before long an abundant crop of incipient Entomologists. But it is not 
young people merely who are taken captive by this book. We have lately 
met with two instances in which it has exerted a similar influence over 
persons in advanced life, and devoted to pursuits which might be supposed 
little calculated to leave room for any enthusiasm on behalf of insects. In 
one case a learned friend of ours who had just been exploring, and with 
good results, the fusty Syriac MSS. of the British Museum, was so 
delighted with the book, on dipping into a copy which accidentally fell in 
his way, that he straightway purchased one for himself, read it with 
avidity, and has since become a most industrious collector. The other 
instance was that of one of our most popular metropolitan clergymen, who, 
having had occasion to refer to the book for the elucidation of some 
passage of Scripture relating to insects, was so deeply interested in what he 
read that he publicly recommended the work from the pulpit, with a 
warmth of commendation which somewhat surprised his hearers. The 
truth is, that to a person who has never before given any attention to the 
subject, the reading of Kirby and Spence for the first time opens the eyes 
to a new world of interest and beauty, which appears to be only the more 
wonderful from the circumstance that it had been so long unheeded. 55 
Titan, Nov. 1857. 
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