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The appearance in English of The Life of the Scorpion,* the capstone in the great ten-volume series of Souvenirs Entomologiques, together with the centenary of his birth (1823) brings to mind again the life labor of Jean Henri Fabre, " the insects' Homer," whom Darwin called "a savant who...
At the same time many may consider an attempt to cram all Shakespeare into a half course over-ambitious. For such devotees English 2 taken twice represents the logical dose. But the senior, with divisionals staring him in the face, who needs a co-ordination of work already done or...
LITTLE LIFE STORIES?Sir Harry Johnston?Macmillan ($2.00). Sir Harry, explorer, scientist and novelist, has at last elected to stand on his own literary feet. And he is much more successful than when he chose simply to bask in the light of the illustrious?as in The Gay-Dombeys and...
If the picture is one to fire the imagination, it also touches the funny bone. The Conquest of the Sahara, the Desert giving up its Secrets, Months of Careful Planning and Preparation,--and five earnest-faced Frenchmen sitting stiffly at the wheels of their caterpillars, staring straight ahead and bumping...
The visual images of the men under discussion is clarity itself, Bishop Gore, for instance, carries about with him "a permanently troubled conscience." The phrase lives in his face. It is not the face of a man at peace with himself. If he has peace of mind it is a...