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INSECTS by Ross E. Hutchins, 324 pages, Prentice-Hall. $6.95.
Bugs are little, and easy to look down on. Ever since Charles Darwin decided that man and his almighty brain were winning the amoral marathon of evolution, it has been fashionable to pity the poor insects for entering a blind alley of biology that mammalry was smart enough to miss...
The insect family, says Dr. Hutchins, is the largest of the animal kingdom. It includes nearly a million species that range in habitat from Antarctic snows to petroleum pools, and vary in size from a fairy fly, which measures about one-hundredth of an inch, to an African goliath beetle...
Though a member may play badly, the only real requirement is that he play gladly. Dr. E. A. Baker of Edinburgh, Scotland, says that his listing of "violin-D" means that "my talents lie rather in making coffee," but he offers "room with piano, stands, refreshment and car parking." Still...
BLOOD ON THE DOVES, by Maude Hutchins. In this profoundly frightening novel, Maude Hutchins pulls the reader into the mad tangle of a deranged mind.