Word: batrachians
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Sidney Bechet is a brown-skinned old-timer from New Orleans, who looks like expansive Mr. Toad in The Wind in the Willows. Last month he did something that was in its way as fantastic as any of the acts of Kenneth Grahame's capricious batrachian. Last week Victor issued a record of The Sheik of Araby played by a six-piece ensemble, in which Mr. Bechet plays all six pieces...
...horned toad is not a toad, nor a frog. It is a lizard, a reptile, which through the ages has developed a broad, squat, warty body. It looks like a batrachian, save for its short, sharp tail. Horned toads run; they do not hop. They breathe by means of lungs, not through the skin. Frogs and regular toads can breathe through the skin. Horned toads (i.e. lizards) are of a higher form of life than are batrachians...
...voluminous, but so much space is occupied by Book-notices, Exchanges, etc., that little is left for original matter. That little, however, is good. The following is a specimen of its wit: "The Professor of Geology told the Seniors, in a lecture, that during the Triassic age, huge batrachian, frog-like animals, as large as cows, infested the earth. One of the class wishes to know if that was the origin of bull-frogs...
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