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The Thistle, a Miscellany of Scottish Song, the melodies arranged in their natural modes, with an introduction to Scottish music, and notes critical and historical, by COLIN BROWN. London and Glasgow, William Collins, Sons and Company, n. d. The Life and Times of The Rev John Skinner of Linshart, Longside, Dean of Aberdeen, by the Rev. WILLIAM WALKER. Second edition.
Cf. 37 10, and notes to 13 1,4 23. plantes exotiques: a few lines farther on, our author explains that these exotic plants were, of course, not of full natural size. The baobab in its native African home is only 40-70 feet in height, but its trunk is sometimes 30 feet in diameter.
Perhaps she did; for resentment at the fate of her friend and mistress was natural. True it is, however, that Louis showed more than once his deep respect for the woman who had seen him in his one moment of remorse at the bedside of the dying princess.
Continuing Daudet says: "Only one who was raised in southern France, or knows it thoroughly, can appreciate how frequently the Tartarin type is to be met there, and how under the generous sun of Tarascon, which warms and electrifies, the natural drollery of mind and imagination is led astray into monstrous exaggerations, in form and dimension as various as bottle gourds."
Notes: J'ai lu dernièrement dans un travail de Smith (le père des géologues anglais), publié dans le Magazine of Natural History, que les grains de quartz du mill-stone grit d'Angleterre sont souvent cristallisés. Dans une notice présentée en 1840
From his youth he exercised this instinct and carried a notebook in which he set down impressions, studies, and sketches of characters and scenes. These notebooks proved to be of inestimable value to the realist; and the natural inclination to seek the naked truth, to which they bear witness, strengthened the determination of the postbellum Daudet to enter the ranks of the sociological novelists.
CHAP. VI. Méduses, physalies, etc. Voir Ehrenberg, Lesson, Dujardin, etc. Forbes montre par les analogies végétales que ces métamorphoses animales sont un phénomène très simple: Ann. of the Natural History, déc. 1844. Lire aussi ses excellentes dissertations: Medusæ, in-4º, 1848. CHAP. VII. L'Oursin. Voir spécialement les curieuses dissertations où M. Caillaud a consigné sa découverte.
Jamais les libraires ne vendirent tant de Bartram's travel in Florida, de Roman's natural history of East and West Florida, de William's territory of Florida, de Cleland on the culture of the Sugar-Cane in East Florida. Il fallut imprimer de nouvelles éditions. C'était une fureur.
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