. Science-gossip . mon objects. Not alwaysis the style of these pictures one would writedown as elegant, nor, indeed, expressive. For SCIENCE-GOSSIP. igi instance: The frog, like the common snipe—thatin some districts has got very uncommon—likes anice dry place to absquatulate in and to thinkmatters over; for froggy is by nature very con-templative. The herons know all about this weak-ness of his, and they glide like shadows to wherehe sits, with his beautiful eyes staring at nothingin particular, and embalm him. How muchmore effective would have been this paragraph great shrike, for one
. Science-gossip . mon objects. Not alwaysis the style of these pictures one would writedown as elegant, nor, indeed, expressive. For SCIENCE-GOSSIP. igi instance: The frog, like the common snipe—thatin some districts has got very uncommon—likes anice dry place to absquatulate in and to thinkmatters over; for froggy is by nature very con-templative. The herons know all about this weak-ness of his, and they glide like shadows to wherehe sits, with his beautiful eyes staring at nothingin particular, and embalm him. How muchmore effective would have been this paragraph great shrike, for one was seen in the same placeto which I have above referred, in the year , or it may be four, dead ones have beenshown me in the course of the last seven years,and all these had been shot in a sort of no mansland district, where old orchards still is much delightful reading in this book, butit is unnecessarily disfigured in some places bypaltry little expressions which could have been so I. A Hawfinch. (From In the Green Leaf and the Sere.) I without the term absquatulate ; for the word embalm there remains so many other words inour language far more expressive. Not that all isof this manner, for occasionally we meet with pageswhere the word pictures are those to ponder of the great shrike, A Son of the Marshessays : Certain flight lines are followed by a certainclass of birds, even although the inducement thatat one time caused them to follow those lines mayhave ceased to exist. This is the case with the easily spared ; for instance, a certain class ofwind-bag ornithologists. The illustrations arespirited, and produced as well as half-tone processwork ever succeeds. With the permission of thepublishers we give one of them here, representinga hawfinch in an alder tree. The book is one wecan quite recommend, though it would have beenmuch improved by a little better taste having beenexercised in eliminating a number of commonplacecolloquiali
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