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NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... were a jelly-fish great and good, To svima and f waner away, Oh, what a jelly-fish I would be ! To no matter where, andI no matter why, But I can't be a jelly-fish, e'en if I would, Like yonder pale jelly-fish out in the bay, And so, as a jelly ...

LITERATURE

... the jelly-fishes exhibit, accrdig to Haecie}, tire chief types. There is firstly indect development, in which the egg of the jelly-fish, settling down. i gives origin to a polyp or plantlike creature, or nurse, from which the young jelly-fishes of the ...

TRAVELLERS' TALES

... things ; while the b other miners dotted that rocky hillside for days without finding a pocket. THE FIRST IDEALIST. e A jelly.fish swam in a tropical sea, r And he said, 'This world coneists of me: There's nothing above and nothing below That djelly-lish ...

BOOKS ABOUT BIRDS AND ANIMALS

... devoted to reptiles ; one to fishes; one to types of crustaceans, spiders, and insects; one to molluscs, and atinal one to jelly-fishes, seaanenornes, and sponges. It wilt thus be seen that the whole animal kingdom, as illustrated in the British Isles, is ...

VARIOUS VERSIFIERS

... 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 ...

SLEEPY SKETCHES.*

... he observes Englishmen eat, drink, work, and play as machines rather than men, and, as far as sensa- tion goes, are mere jelly-fish; all brain work is irksome to men living in a constant vapour-bath, and the chief advantage of such a life is the satis- ...

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... trickling down the pen and diluting the ink and pickling the words, and making the wet paper as pleasant to write to as a jelly-fish, and as appetizing to sleep as a salt-lick. A frog is had beet as a fellow in green tights ; a ragged boy looks as if ...

ANOTHER LIFE OF SHELLEY

... shows us that these wonders are not confined to the surface, but that the depths of the sea gleam with luminous creatures, jelly-fishes, and echinoderms. Wonder grows upon us when we try to realize the appearance presented by the gigantic Cyanea and the Pyrosoma ...

MR. JESSE COLLINGS'S LATEST JOKE

... murmur of the I secluded and insignificant Devonshire village of Littleham, having for his earliest playmates the gentle jellyfish and the crawling crab, removed whilst young to roaring Birmingham and re- maining there as a manufacturer until he had amassed ...

LITERATURE

... inhabitants of an aquarium with the point of his gold pencil, in the apparent hope of getting up intimate relations with a jelly-fish. He would beguile the golded inmates of a crystal globe by tearing up minute fragments of one of his visiting cards, and ...

A HIGHLAND PARISH

... for the person wuhotu it is 10'V fashionable to describe as the sociologist. Ordinary zoological clhat about field-mice, jelly-fish, and other assorted animal inhabitants likev.-ise makeC ip a considerable proportion of the volume. Nor is remote anttrohology ...

SOME OF THE MAGAZINES FOR SEPTEMBER

... this perfectly true history of the oyster and the star-fish. Mr. Wood says nothing about the too-affectionate habits of the jelly-fish, which sometimes attaches itself to unfortunate bathers. Only the other day we heard of a lady receiving a surprising shock ...