... 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 ...

... Mr. Romanes's on the beginnings of nerve-tissue as first found in the ascending series of animal life in the Medusoe, or jelly-fishes, are both singularly able papers, but, as may be imagined, of a highly technical character.-Mr. Walter Pater gives us a ...

... fair article ( Living Lamps ) on the light-giving creatures of land and sea, from the fire- fly to the phosphorescent jelly-fish ; and a good paper, all Artist's Strolls in Holland, to which is prefixed a very fine wood-engraving of Rembrandt's ...

... superiority to the finer emotions of humanity (as if insensibility implied superiority! Why, which of us can hope to rival the jelly-fish ?)-has not infected him. Mlany of us outgrow it; but Hazel never took it-just as some constitutions are impervious to measles ...