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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
149
I
would
gladly
devote
more
space
than
I
can
here
spare
to
a
review
of
this
little
book,
so
perfectly
does
it
corroborate
every
word
which
I
have
said
already
as
to
the
moral
and
intellectual
value
of
such
studies.
Richard
Shield,
making
himself
a
first-rate
“lepidopterist,”
while
working
with
his
hands
for
a
pound
a
week,
is
the
antitype
of
Mr.
Peach,
the
coast-guardsman,
among
his
Cornish
tide-rocks.
But
more
than
this,
there
is
about
Shield’s
book
a
tone
as
of
Izaak
Walton
himself,
which
is
very
delightful;
tender,
poetical,
and
religious,
yet
full
of
quiet
quaintness
and
humour;
showing
in
every
page
how
the
love
for
Natural
History
is
in
him
only
one
expression
of
a
love
for
all
things
beautiful,
and
pure,
and
right.
If
any
readers
of
these
pages
fancy
that
I
over-praise
the
book,
let
them
buy
it,
and
judge
for
themselves.
They
will
thus
help
the
good
man
toward
pursuing
his
studies
with
larger
and
better
appliances,
and
will
be
(as
I
expect)
surprised
to
find
how
much
there
is
to
be
seen
and
done,
even
by
a
working-man,
within
a
day’s
walk
of
smoky
Babylon
itself;
and
how
easily
a
man
might,
if
he
would,
wash
his
soul
clean
for
a
while
from
all
the
turmoil
and
intrigue,
the
vanity
and
vexation
of
spirit
of
that
“too-populous
wilderness,”
by
going
out
to
be
alone
a
while
with
God
in
heaven,
and
with
that
earth
which
He
has
given
to
the
children
of
men,
not
merely
for
the
material
wants
of
their
bodies,
but
as
a
witness
and
a
sacrament
that
in
Him
they
live
and
move,
and
have
their
being,
“not
by
bread
alone,
but
by
every
word
that
proceedeth
out
of
the
mouth
of
God.”
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