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...hardship-ridden life. The Life of the Scorpion is typical both of his method as a naturalist and of the charm of his style-a style which fascinates many a reader to whom a technical book on entomology would be anathema. The other insects that he studied include the spider, fly, mason-bee, bramble-bee, hunting wasp, ant, grasshopper, caterpillar, mason-wasp, weevil, glowworm, sacred beetle and other beetles. Fabre struggled for nearly 40 years, teaching physics, chemistry and mathematics (not the subjects that he loved) in provincial schools in Corsica and Avignon and writing textbooks to raise a large...
...title page of Christopher Morley's new book, "Inward Ho!" the twentieth century poet has inserted the words of his brother Keats: "Now it appears to me that almost any man may, like the spider, sping from his own inwards his own airy Citadel--the points of leaves and twigs on which the spider begins her work are few, and she fills the air with a beautiful circuiting...
...snow. From the Winter sports at Quebec, the hero and the girl start in an airplane. Forced down on a frozen lake, Lionel (Lionel Barrymore has the lead) lopes away on his snowshoes for aid. The blizzard breaks. The girl (Seena Owen) goes snow-blind and wanders into a spider's nest of villains. Fights of varying ferocity follow, airplane rescues, blazing refugees...
Like Bobby Bruce's spider, Bobby Jones of Atlanta swung again, bettering the Spider's effort by three swings when he landed in the National Open Golf Championship at Inwood, L. I. In 1920 Jones was eight places short of the title; in 1921 five short; in 1922 one short. In 1923 he was not short...
...Will you walk into my parlor ?" said the fly to the spider. "YESS!" said the spider, "and now it is mine...