I think it did. Men the globe
around promptly wrote me that they always had observed the moral
code; others that the subject never in all their lives had been
presented to them from my point of view, but now that it had been,
they would change and do what they could to influence all men to do
the same"
Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton publish a British edition of "The
Harvester," there is an edition in Scandinavian, it was running
serially in a German magazine, but for a time at least the German
and French editions that were arranged will be stopped by this war,
as there was a French edition of "The Song of the Cardinal."
After a short rest, the author began putting into shape a book for
which she had been compiling material since the beginning of field
work. From the first study she made of an exquisite big night moth,
Mrs. Porter used every opportunity to secure more and
representative studies of each family in her territory, and
eventually found the work so fascinating that she began hunting
cocoons and raising caterpillars in order to secure life histories
and make illustrations with fidelity to life. "It seems," comments
the author, "that scientists and lepidopterists from the beginning
have had no hesitation in describing and using mounted moth and
butterfly specimens for book text and illustration, despite the
fact that their colours fade rapidly, that the wings are always in
unnatural positions, and the bodies shrivelled. I would quite as
soon accept the mummy of any particular member of the Rameses
family as a fair representation of the living man, as a mounted
moth for a live one.
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