... we honestly confess that we much 1 prefer lying on the beach with the book of M1r. Rymer Jones in our hand, to handling jellyfish. f nettlefish, starfish, et id genus onne. Every man to his taste ; to ours they are clammy, disagreeable r creatures, full ...

... ers, and to cultivate acquaintance among the oldest inhabitants of the shore of his watering place, whe- ther crabs or jelly-fishes, gasteropod molluscs or compound ascidians, will receive from none of the many pleasant books upon salt-water life written ...

... Mediterranean. Yet there is hardly an increase of life ; for even in the frozen north, where swims leviathan, the minute jelly-fishes, covering and tinging with an olive green a fourth part of tbe surface of the Greenland Sea, were reckoned by Dr.Scoresby ...

... mysterious subject. It is now no longer a matter of doubt thatalmost all the inferior marine animal., particularly the jelly-fishes, many molluscs and aunelides, crustaceans and infusoria, possess the faculty of emitting a phosphoric light,_- and addingtheir ...

... and turned into a water- dog, and jumped arid danced round Toni, and ran over the crests of sthe waves, and snapped at the jelly-fish and the mackerel, and followed Tom the whole way to the Other-enrd-of-Nowhere. )We are tempted to quote more, but we have ...

... of continuity in their body. Mr Dallas rather disdains the tendency of men to look for the finger of God in crabs and jelly-fishes. but when we have found out that Lear and the Iliad are to be studied as harmonious parts in one great science of Art, ...

... amount of pleasant information on the least familiar branches of natural history. This, for instance, is from a chapter on jelly-fish: A soft gelatinous transparent or translucent body, without a cal- careous skeleton or intestinal duct, and whose parts ...

... throughout: Sunday, 20th February.-A quiet Sunday, with nothing to break its peaceful calm. The sheeny sea is crowded with jelly-fish, which are to be seen floating past the ship in countless thousands. They are larger and nuore beautiful than those met ...

... themselves, Their pleasures are rough and boisterous; they ; wado about bare legged in the pools of water, they fish for jelly-fish, which they bring into the drawing-room I on a stick. White mere urchins they learn to box, and they box with gloves before ...

... yellow waste so conspicuous on our maps represented till then an almost nebulous aggregate of human atoms. It was a kind of jelly-fish among the nations, bulky and featureless, but with a nucleus somewhere of vitality and danger. But then came Peter the Great ...

... us to confess that he has not uniformly satisfied us in his recent novels; they have lacked fibre and muscle, and of the jelly-fish class of story-writers we have aban- dance, in all conscience. It rests with such men as Mr Trollope to prevent the degradation ...

... affectation pervading the whole, the author has yet to learn the process of manufacturing verses. This is the soliloquy of a jelly-fish ( ?? What joys had I? What vague delight, What dim titillation my fondness won? What first thrilled me? What first gave ...