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hvd.32044089408389-01	nan	The Dial  v.11 (1890-91	1891		.txt	text/plain	54567	4715	77	By CLARA LOUISE BURNHAM, author years of experience on the part of Miss Parloa, of “ Next Door, · Young Maids and Old,” “ A who has delivered over one thousand lectures Sane Lunatic,” etc. 16mo, $1.25. on the art of cooking. As a story of travel simply, as a graceful ter describing in detail the remarkable charac- description of strange scenes and peoples, the ter of the fauna and flora of these ten islands, | present book is a charming one; but in its most of them in sight of each other, and differ- higher character as the storehouse of material ing neither in the nature of the soil, nor height | out of which was wrought a work whose im- of the land, nor the climate, nor the general pression was at once more wide, more deep, character of the associated beings, he adds: and more immediate, than any other of our “ It is the circumstance that several of the islands pos age, or perhaps of any age, this “ Naturalist's sess their own species of the tortoise, mocking-thrush, Voyage Round the World “belongs among the finches, and numerous plants, these species having the noteworthy of the books of all time. same general habits, occupying analogous situations, and obviously filling the same place in the natural economy Anna B. McMAHAN. of this archipelago, that strikes me with wonder.	cache/hvd.32044089408389-01.txt	txt/hvd.32044089408389-01.txt