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...than Man o' War. His girth behind the shoulders was 81 in. against Man o' War's 71¾ in. Alive, Phar Lap weighed approximately 1,200 lb.; Man o' War, 1,160 Ib. Other measurements: front leg from knee, 20 in.; hind leg from hock, 25 in.; length of neck, 36 in.; length of body...
Throughout Professor Hind is thorough and scholarly, but never so technical that the book becomes incomprehensible or uninteresting to a novice. The format of the book is admirable, the printing excellent, and the hundred or more illustrations beautifully reproduced...
Professor Hind's constant aim in these lectures, delivered when he held the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry in 1930-31, was not to add to the general sum of knowledge about Rembrandt; but to stimulate and further enjoyment in his works. And for this reason the lectures avoid the stiff formality of a thesis, and present an attitude as delightful as it is rare toward the work of the greatest of the Flemish school...
...York's moths were snow-white linden moths (Ennomos subsignarius) of the measuring-worm or elm-span family (Geometridae). In the caterpillar stage they live on leaves, preferably elm and linden, and also like lettuce salad. Having but two pairs of prolegs. the worms push themselves with their hind legs until they are humped like a croquet wicket, then slide their front ends forward. Grown fat, they spin a thread, slide down it to the ground, snooze under fallen leaves. Early in July the moth emerges, seeks company, goes off whichever way the wind is blowing. Last week...
...horse originated in North America. It had four toes on its fore feet, three toes on its hind feet. Moderns speak of it as Eohippus. It stood about 16 in. high, lived some 25 million years ago. In 24,900,000 years Eohippus grew up to the size of the modern horse, went wandering across America into Asia, across Asia, down into Africa. There the Libyans tamed him. From this horse is descended the race of pure-blooded Arab horses, famed for fleetness, which Arabian breeders still guard jealously. Some of his cousins went to France, were also tamed. These...