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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
144
The
suggestion
has
been
made.
Will
it
ever
be
taken
up,
and
a
“Naiad
Club”
formed,
for
the
combination
of
sport
and
science?
And,
now,
how
can
this
desultory
little
treatise
end
more
usefully
than
in
recommending
a
few
books
on
Natural
History,
fit
for
the
use
of
young
people;
and
fit
to
serve
as
introductions
to
such
deeper
and
larger
works
as
Yarrell’s
“Birds
and
Fishes,”
Bell’s
“Quadrupeds”
and
“Crustacea,”
Forbes
and
Hanley’s
“Mollusca,”
Owen’s
“Fossil
Mammals
and
Birds,”
and
a
host
of
other
admirable
works?
Not
that
this
list
will
contain
all
the
best;
but
simply
the
best
of
which
the
writer
knows;
let,
therefore,
none
feel
aggrieved,
if,
as
it
may
chance,
opening
these
pages,
they
find
their
books
omitted.
First
and
foremost,
certainly,
come
Mr.
Gosse’s
books.
There
is
a
playful
and
genial
spirit
in
them,
a
brilliant
power
of
word-painting
combined
with
deep
and
earnest
religious
feeling,
which
makes
them
as
morally
valuable
as
they
are
intellectually
interesting.
Since
White’s
“History
of
Selborne,”
few
or
no
writers
on
Natural
History,
save
Mr.
Gosse,
Mr.
G.
H.
Lewes,
and
poor
Mr.
E.
Forbes,
have
had
the
power
of
bringing
out
the
human
side
of
science,
and
giving
to
seemingly
dry
disquisitions
and
animals
of
the
lowest
type,
by
little
touches
of
pathos
and
humour,
that
living
and
personal
interest,
to
bestow
which
is
generally
the
special
function
of
the
poet:
not
that
Waterton
and
Jesse
are
not
excellent
in
this
respect,
and
authors
who
should
be
in
every
boy’s
library:
but
they
are
rather
anecdotists
than
systematic
or
scientific
inquirers;
while
Mr.
Gosse,
in
his
“Naturalist
on
the
Shores
of
Devon,”
his
“Tour
in
Jamaica,”
his
“Tenby,”
and
his
“Canadian
Naturalist,”
has
done
for
those
three
places
what
White
did
for
Selborne,
with
all
the
improved
appliances
of
a
science
which
has
widened
and
deepened
tenfold
since
White’s
time.
Mr.
Gosse’s
“Manual
of
the
Marine
Zoology
of
the
British
Isles”
is,
for
classification,
by
far
the
completest
handbook
extant.
He
has
contrived
in
it
to
compress
more
sound
knowledge
of
vast
classes
of
the
animal
kingdom
than
I
ever
saw
before
in
so
small
a
space.
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