Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 733
a welcome with thegreat world outside small societies of painfully learned men. And that is what Fabre wished most of all to do. He wished indeed to makethe earth and its wonders understandable and attractive even to children; and hewrote some of his masterpieces especially for them. The five books… … Especially for Adults SOCIAL LIFE IN THEINSECT WORLD Maeterlinck has called Fabre the in-sects Homer. He makes their everydaylives, their adventures, their romances asreal and thrilHng to the reader as if hewere writing about people. He revealsinstances of habit, of co-operative organi-zation…
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