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"The work throughout is clearly written, in many parts with animation and spirit — the result of an active mind distinctly per- ceiving what it intends to convey — Spectator, May 29, 1841.

"A volume which is likely to be very serviceable to the beginner. It is very carefully illustrated by numerous and well executed wood- engravings."— A/orweV?^ Herald, June 19, 1841.

"This volume, one of the best familiar introductions to En- tomology we have met with, we recommend to those desirous of acquiring accurate elementary information on the history, general physiology, classification, and mode of preserving insects."— Professor Jameson's Journal, Oct., 1841.

"We have here a complete popular treatise! It is a kind of first book on Entomology, out may answer every purpose to nine -tenths of students." — Taifs Edinburgh Magazine, June, 1841.

"We have marked above with Roman type the character of this publication, which is truly a very acceptable mixture of the dulce et utile. Mr. Newman does not take too much knowledge for granted, but beginning at the beginning, fairly illustrates his subject till we find that his is the beginning of the end. We cordially recommend his volume not only to entomological students, but to all lovers of animate Nature." —^Literary Gazette, June 12, 1841.

"The charm of this volume is, that it is written in a frank and explanatory spirit, which will be quite as intelligible and as cap- tivating to a child as to a man. There are no mysteries of science buried under ominous italics in its pages. Every definition is full- nothing is taken as granted — we are carried into the field of inquiry as if we had never heard of it before ; and it is our fault, and not that of the writer, if we do not understand enough about entomology, when we have closed the book, to tempt us to realize some further acquisitions for ourselves. The secret of all this consists in the simple but very important principle upon which the author has com- posed this treatise. He has presumed at starting that his readers know nothing whatever of the subject, and he has written accord- ingly. There is no doubt that this is the proper way of writing intro- ductions. It is the only way to make them achieve with complete success the end for which they are designed." — Atlas, August 14, 1841.